Greek state workers strike against firings before troika visit

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek workers shut schools and forced hospitals to work on emergency staff on Wednesday at the start of a 48-hour strike against the government's latest plans to fire thousands of public sector staff. Efforts to rein in the 600,000-strong civil service, long seen as spendthrift and corrupt, have been met with resistance from labour unions who say the scheme will only worsen ...

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