Protesters shout slogans during a rally by high school teachers against layoffs in their sector in Athens September 16, 2013. REUTERS/Yorgos Karahalis
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek workers shut schools and forced hospitals to operate with only emergency staff on Wednesday at the start of a 48-hour strike against the latest plans to fire thousands of public sector employees.
Efforts to shrink the 600,000-strong civil service, long seen as wasteful and corrupt, have been resisted by labour unions who say the scheme will only worsen the plight of Greeks enduring a sixth year of recession.
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