Fresh general strike in Greece over reforms
Public services shut down across Greece today as workers walked off the job in a new nationwide general strike that disrupted public transport, left hospitals operating on emergency staff and pulled all news broadcasts off the air.
Tension mounted once more in the country’s main port of Piraeus, where hundreds of demonstrators from a Communist Party-backed labour union attempted to prevent tourists and locals from boarding ferries to Aegean islands, even though a court had declared seamen’s participation in the strike illegal. Although some ships did leave early in the morning, not all passengers managed to board.
