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New Government Faces Union Action


New technocrat Prime Minister Lucas Papademos is about to face his biggest challenge yet as unions go on general strike on Thursday, the sixth this year. Public services will shut down, trains and ferries will freeze and state schools and hospitals will for once more run on emergency stuff.
Greek journalists are leading the way with a 24-hour strike on Wednesday to protest against major layoffs in recent months in the nation’s struggling media outlets, followed by a four-hour work stoppage on Thursday. The two top unions that have spearheaded resistance to the cuts, private-sector GSEE and civil service ADEDY, say that wage and pension sacrifices will continue despite the inclusion of austerity critics in a temporary unity government that took over earlier this month.
Municipal workers will walk off their job (again) meaning garbage will not be collected for at least a day but Greeks and especially Athenians are trained to survive in garbage piled, train-less city as Greece’s trade unions have staged countless strikes and demonstrations since the debt crisis forced authorities to start taking austerity measures two years ago. Despite the fact that Papademos is a widely respected technocrat in Greece and is considered as the ideal man for the job, Greeks are angered by years of austerity that have lowered living standards and have no patience left.
(source: AFP)

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