Greek unions strike over privatizations

[Robbien]

Source: AP

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece's largest labor unions are planning strikes Thursday that will disrupt state services and flights by domestic carrier Olympic Airlines.
Unions are angry at pension reforms, high consumer prices and recent privatization deals.

The GSEE, Greece largest labor union, said 24-hour strikes would be held at the country's main telecoms company, OTE, and at Greece's two main container ports, all slated for privatization. Employees at the state-run electricity company, PPC, and elsewhere in the public sector will hold three-hour work stoppages.

Greece's conservative government has promised to push through economic reforms, including more aggressive privatization and an overhaul of pension funds, after winning re-election last September, and despite having a majority of just one seat in parliament.

As a result, unions have staged a barrage of protests, often coinciding with each other, but sometimes for different reasons.

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Conservative means greed, more for the rich. Voters need to have this pounded in their heads.

[Acadia Blue]

1. You go guys. They will cut your wages and benefits, and only enrich

some mniddle man pig, and raise the cost to consumers. Fight it before its too late.

[Doctor Cynic]

2. My Big Fat Greek Selloff. n/t

[gulfcoastliberal]

3. Privitization is a scam benefiting only the super-rich.

I'm reading The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein and it is infuriating to learn how the Friedman model has been foisted upon people via massacres and deception.

[judasdisney]

4. Unfortunately, it will take economic collapse for Americans to recognize truth about privatization

And maybe not even then.