Greek Job Cuts Protest Fizzles Out

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Athens on July 16 during a 24-hour general strike called by the country’s two largest labor unions, ADEDY representing public workers and GSEE representing private workers. It came a day ahead of a scheduled vote in Parliament on a package of more than 100 reforms, key among them a plan to shed 15,000 jobs by the end of 2014 and put another ...

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