Greek Workers Strike, Protest Against Brutal Austerity Measures
Submitted on September 23, 2011
By David Walsh - 23 September 2011
Tens of thousands of Greek public transport workers, teachers, civil servants and air traffic controllers walked out Thursday to protest the latest round of austerity measures announced the day before by the PASOK government...Workers responded explosively to the deeply unpopular plan. In and around Athens, bus, subway, tram, electric rail and suburban rail workers walked off the job, joined by taxi owners.
