Sentence examples for servants union from inspiring English sources

Despite the skirmishes, the demonstration got "a good turnout," said Vassilis Xenakis, a senior official at the civil servants' union.

The same goes for the transport workers' union the RMT and the public servants' union the PCS.

Tania Karayiannis at ADEDY, the civil servants' union, told Helena: In Athens the turn-out was huge.

"All my life I have been saying Oxi," Grigoris Kalomiris, general secretary of the civil servants' union Adedy told me.

In one show late Monday, the head of the main civil servants' union, Spyros Papaspyros, said Greeks would never accept the proposed changes.

The leader of the country's civil servants' union, Spyros Papaspyros, described the 14th salary as a "historic conquest" that workers would fight to protect.

Most importantly, civil servants' unions had already planned a strike on the day of the shutdown.

"The biggest protests ever seen in this country will take place in the coming days," Ilias Iliopoulos, general secretary of Greece's million-strong civil-servants' union, Adedy, told the Guardian.

One of the civil servant unions, the Public and Commercial Services union, said frontline services would bear the brunt of the coalition government's cuts because there was "nothing left to cut after successive years of reduction".

Grigoris Kalomoiris, who sits on the executive committee of Adedy, the civil servants' trade union, said: "As industrial action goes it was very successful.

Capable of steely charm and the occasional tantrum, Lady Symons was general secretary of the First Division Association, the top civil servants' trade union, before Mr Blair gave her a peerage.Colour.