Pharmacies to reopen on Tuesday

20:42 31/3/2014 - Πηγή: Matrix24

The Attica Pharmacists Association also decided to reopen on Tuesday but will shut down again at 2:00 p.m. for a work stoppage until 8:00 p.m. to allow pharmacists to participate in a rally organised by ADEDY, the largest public sector union in Greece, at Klafthmonos Square.

ADEDY is protesting against the Ecofin, which is meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday at Zappeion Hall in Athens.

The National Association will also participate in ADEDY's national strike on April 9, while it also decided that pharmacists will stop weekday "allnighter" openings (from 8:00 p.m. to and will "continue their struggle through the pharmacies themselves" by "turning 11,000 pharmacies into citizens' information centres, for two months" to update them on changes included in the omnibus bill that was passed.

PFS president Kyriakos Theodosidis announced he was withdrawing his membership from New Democracy. "The party I served for several years did not respond to the needs of the times, and succumbed to pressures by the troika and large interests, destroying 12,000 pharmacists," he said in an announcement on Monday.

source: ΑΜΝΑ