June 15, 2011
Greece's largest labour unions have begun a 24-hour anti-austerity strike as the Socialist government prepares for a legislative battle to push through last-ditch cost-cutting reforms.
The strike left state hospitals running on emergency staff, disrupted port traffic and public transport, and forced radio and television news programmes off the air. Flights, however, were operating normally after the air traffic controllers' union called off their participation in the strike.
"They keep asking us to give more," said Ilias Iliopoulos, the general secretary of the civil servants' union ADEDY. "Now, again, they will cut our salaries and bonuses, from the little that we have left."
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