On the anniversary of the radical left’s accession to power in January 2015, anger is growing across all segments of Greece’s society. The draft law on pensions that the government put to the country’s creditors for review at the start of January has attracted the harshest criticism from both private and public sector unions and they have called for an all out general strike on Thursday 04 February, the third since September 2015.
On Tuesday 02 February, the starting gun was fired for union mobilization. Bus, tramway and subway drivers stopped work from 11hr until 16hr. On Wednesday 03 February journalists took up the baton and went on strike. The GSEE, the country’s main private sector union confederation, together with Adedy, the Greek civil servants confederation, organizations representing independent workers, researchers, doctors, and pharmacists, and the confederation for taxis, will all participate in a...
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