Athens subway workers end strike

Striking subway workers in Athens have returned to work, hours after the Greek government used riot police to clear strikers from a train depot, ending a bitter stand-off over new austerity measures.

Athens subway workers end strike

Striking subway workers in Athens have returned to work, hours after the Greek government used riot police to clear strikers from a train depot, ending a bitter stand-off over new austerity measures.

The nine-day strike – which knocked out a system serving more than a million people a day – was the biggest labour unrest Greece’s uneasy, conservative-led governing coalition faced since taking over last June.

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