Greek school teachers early on Thursday abandoned plans to hold a strike during university entry exams after the government enacted an emergency decree to force them back to work.
“There are colleagues facing dismissal, we don’t want families to cry and homes to shut,” Nikos Papachristos, head of the main teachers union OLME, told To Vima radio.
A vote by the union late on Wednesday failed to secure the necessary majority to pursue the strike, which was to begin on Friday.
The country’s main unions also refused to agree to OLME’s request to hold a general strike on Friday to support the teachers’ labour action.