Greece: Strikes ground flights
Government offices were closed, hospitals worked with a skeleton staff and Greek airspace was shut down as Greece faced its seventh major strike.
Thursday, 15.07.2010.
14:53
Government offices were closed, hospitals worked with a skeleton staff and Greek airspace was shut down as Greece faced its seventh major strike. Greek public sector workers were joined on Thursday by air traffic controllers and doctors in a nationwide strike against the labor reforms and austerity measures the government has unveiled to solve its debt crisis. Greece: Strikes ground flights Flights to and from Greece were grounded, hospitals operated with emergency staff only and tax, municipal and judicial offices remained closed across Greece. According to officials at Athens' International Airport, more than 60 international and domestic flights were canceled, with another 131 rescheduled. Air traffic controllers are expected to be back on the job by 1 p.m. local time. Later on Thursday, the civil servants union Adedy was planning to stage a demonstration outside of parliament, where lawmakers are preparing to pass a major retirement reform bill. Rallies were expected in Thessaloniki as well as Athens. The reform package would cut benefits, increase the number of years of contribution, up the retirement age for women to 65 from 60 and curb the widespread practice of early retirement. This and other measures were conditions of a bailout package from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund worth 110 billion euros ($140 billion). The country is working to get out from under almost 300 billion euros in debt.
Greece: Strikes ground flights
Flights to and from Greece were grounded, hospitals operated with emergency staff only and tax, municipal and judicial offices remained closed across Greece. According to officials at Athens' International Airport, more than 60 international and domestic flights were canceled, with another 131 rescheduled. Air traffic controllers are expected to be back on the job by 1 p.m. local time.Later on Thursday, the civil servants union Adedy was planning to stage a demonstration outside of parliament, where lawmakers are preparing to pass a major retirement reform bill. Rallies were expected in Thessaloniki as well as Athens.
The reform package would cut benefits, increase the number of years of contribution, up the retirement age for women to 65 from 60 and curb the widespread practice of early retirement. This and other measures were conditions of a bailout package from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund worth 110 billion euros ($140 billion).
The country is working to get out from under almost 300 billion euros in debt.
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