Eureka! Institutional Repository

The field of labor relations can be considered from many aspects and can therefore be considered as a multidisciplinary field that is investigated according to the theoretical background of its scholars. Industrial relations have a legal but also a social and economic status. Under no circumstances can they be understood outside the organization in which they develop. Each school unit is an organization and as such develops within the working relationships formed by various factors such as the school's outdoor environment, the school's manager and staff (teachers, administrative and auxiliary staff) and the school climate has been formed in the school unit. Over the last nine years our country has been experiencing a prolonged period of economic recession and social crisis, which has resulted in radical changes in Greek society in general and in Greek education in particular: reduction of operating income for school units, school mergers, and changing teachers' working relationships with flexible working relationships and forced secondments to other regions. The economic recession redefines the school climate and disturbs the balance between the teachers and the school management, but also the teachers with each other. The survey carried out contains a comparative study of seven (7) individual dimensions of working relationships within a school unit and has shown that the economic crisis plays an important role in the way and the essence of shaping labor relations in terms of compliance with the regulatory framework for the operation of school units, rationalization of the performance of teachers’ day-to-day activities and the development of a competitive environment to improve teachers’ performance. Labor relations are redefined in accordance with the wider socio-political and economic conditions prevailing in the environment in which they operate.