Samaras Will Order Universities To Open

ATHENS - Striking staff at Greek universities, who've stayed off the job for 10 weeks to protest government plans to shed 1,300 jobs at the schools, will reportedly be ordered back to work. Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who this year issued civil mobilization orders to force striking Metro and port workers to return to work under threat of being arrested or fired ? and prevented a planned teachers strike ? will do the same for the striking staff at the Athens University and the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Staff at the two institutions stopped work in protest at the so-called labor mobility scheme, though professors at the NTUA, who had been striking in solidarity with the workers, returned to work this week while those at Athens University had decided to come back next week. But with the administrative staff saying they would stay out ? while being paid the whole time ? the schools could not have resumed normal operations.

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