Other public employees include a town clerk and a small police force.
He later organized public employees in Texas for the union.
However, the court also said that public employees did not have the right to strike.
Under the contract, public employees will be given a 5.4 percent pay increase.
"After all, people used to say you could never organize public employees."
And not even here, where public employees hold onto jobs like ivy.
The teachers received a 5 percent raise earlier this year along with other public employees.
Only now is the working week for Greek public employees being raised from 37.5 to 40 hours.
The country has about 6m public employees of all kinds.
More than 23,000 public employees will return to their jobs today.
