Ships stayed in port and public buses and trains ran on reduced services in Gree...
ATHENS - Ships stayed in port and public buses and trains ran on reduced services in Greece on Tuesday as workers staged their first mass walkout since a new conservative government took office in July.
The government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis came to power on pledges to speed up investment and spur growth in a country where economic output shrank by a quarter during a multi-year financial crisis. Holding banners reading “Hands off Unions”, several thousand Greeks marched peacefully through central Athens under light rain on Tuesday.
Unions representing workers in fields as diverse as banking to nursery schools and journalism urged members to go on strike.
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