Massive protest in Greece: 24-hour strike against living costs!

Massive protest in Greece: 24-hour strike against living costs!

In a dramatic expression of the dismissal, thousands of people in Athens and other Greek cities took part in a 24-hour strike to protest against the exploding cost of living. The streets were overcrowded on Wednesday when around 15,000 demonstrators in the capital and another 4,000 in Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece. The public services and parts of the transport network were paralyzed by this massive protest.

The Greek general union said that the strike was an "answer to the refusal of the government to take measures to guarantee a worthy life for the workers". In an urgent declaration, the union asked the government to recognize the need that the prosperity of society depends on the wealth of workers. "Urgent measures are necessary to counter the increase in prices, the priceless housing costs and the persistently low wages," emphasized Esther Lynch, the general secretary of the European Union Confederation (ETUC), which was to support the protests in Greece.

comprehensive effects of the strike

The effects of the strike were far-reaching: ferries from mainland to the Aegean and Ionian islands were also affected because the members of the PNO sailing union joined the protest. Employees of buses, subway and trains, schools, dishes and hospitals also joined the strike. The anger in Greece grows not only because of the rising food prices, but also because of the exploding housing costs, which are particularly acute in Athens. In October, the ELStat statistics office reported an inflation of 2.4 percent in the year.

On Tuesday, the journalist union carried out its own 24-hour strike to request new collective agreements, since the last one from 2008, before the devastating financial crisis, comes. The unions, which have declared several strikes since the beginning of the year, criticize the policy of the conservative government under Kyriako's Mitsotakis, which was re -elected last year for a new four -year mandate. Mitsotakis recently announced that the purchasing power of the people by increasing the minimum wage and pensions from January