Transport disrupted as Greek workers launch 24-hour strike (again)

DPA ^ | 6/29/2010 | DPA

[mainsail that]

Athens - Greek workers disrupted rail and sea travel and shut down public services across the country Tuesday in a 24-hour strike over government austerity measures.

The planned strike is the fifth major protest since Athens unveiled austerity measures to battle its budget-deficit crisis.

Government offices, state banks as well as tax, municipality and judicial offices remained closed in protest against pension reforms, salary and pension cuts, and tax increases.

Hospitals operated with emergency staff while journalists also joined the strike, causing a virtual news blackout to go into effect across the country.

Rail and road transport across the country were disrupted while people trying to travel from the country's main port of Pireaus experienced difficulties, after two of the 14 unions that make up the Panhellenic Seamen's Federation joined the strike.

[mainsail that]

From Bloomberg " Greek pensioners on average live on 96 percent of the salary they had when they worked, more than twice the proportion of earnings as Germans, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The Paris-based group called the system a “fiscal time bomb.”"

[Hexenhammer]

when the French call your pension system a time bomb, you know it’s bad.

[Varsity Flight]

+++++ Government offices, state banks as well as tax, municipality and judicial offices remained closed +++++

Let freedom ring.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

What part of δεν υπάρχουν άλλα χρήματα don't they understand?

[Senator John Blutarski]

Cognitive dissonance on a national scale. This will not end well.

[G-Man 1]

Wait until the gov cuts the US pensions, food stamps and ss cks. There will be armed revolution. Will make grease look like a picnic.

[G-Man 1]

Wait until the gov cuts the US pensions, food stamps and ss cks. There will be armed revolution. Will make grease look like a picnic.

[G-Man 1]

Wait until the gov cuts the US pensions, food stamps and ss cks. There will be armed revolution. Will make grease look like a picnic.

[Bob Buchholz]

My wife and I were talking about a vacation in Greece this summer. Needless to say the strikes and riots have changed our mind. I’m sure that they don’t want or need our money anyway.

[citizenredstater9271]

By that time anarchist socialist terrorists will have taken over the entire country and will probably put all the capitalist “bourgeoise” in slave labor campus like they did in Spain.