Washington Post
November 22, 2011
In Greece, it’s deja vu all over again: Unions are staging a new round of strikes and work stoppages against the austerity measures put forward by the new interim government. Not incidentally, those would be the same austerity measures that have to pass if Greece wants to receive a bailout from the E.U.
Greek Unions announced today that they will kick off December with a one-day strike to protest the austerity measures that the parliament will begin debating a few days later. This comes after a four-hour work stoppage today by workers in the Athenian subway system.
No matter who implements it, austerity isn’t that popular. “The government has changed but the unjust and ineffective policy hasn’t changed at all,” Greek union head Yiannis Panagopoulos told the Associated Press. “For as long as this policy, which leaves social corpses in its wake, continues, we will stand firm against it.”
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