Greek workers strike, seeking higher wages, tax cuts


  • World
  • Wednesday, 28 Nov 2018

People walk next to a moored passenger ferry during a 24-hour general strike at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece, November 28, 2018.REUTERS/Costas Baltas

ATHENS (Reuters) - Public transport was disrupted and ships remained in ports as Greek workers went on strike on Wednesday, seeking increases in minimum wages and the re-introduction of collective bargaining.

Greece's biggest private-sector union, GSEE, called the 24-hour walkout, demanding tax cuts and a rise in the minimum wage, which was slashed under the terms of the country's three international bailouts since 2010, which ended in August.

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