Strikes called by Greece’s biggest labor union have halted ferryboats, interrupted public transportation services and left some state-run healthcarefacilities running on emergencysituation staffing levels in Athens and inotherplaces
ByDEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press and COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece — Strikes called by Greece’s biggest labor union halted ferryboats, interrupted public transportation services and left some state-run healthcarefacilities running on emergencysituation staffing levels in Athens and somewhereelse Wednesday.
The General Confederation of Greek Labor, GSEE, led the strikes to press for a return of cumulative bargaining rights axed more than a years ago throughout a extreme monetary crisis.
Several thousand protesters, shouting “our rights are not paradise,” wentto a presentation in main Athens which ended quietly. Public park employees likewise signedupwith the strike and demonstrations, along with food shipment chauffeurs who rode past parliament on motorcycles, holding up red smoke flares.
Police stated some 4,000