Greek Workers Austerity Strike Grounds Flights, Ships, Transport
(WorldNews Greece)

ATHENS – It was futile again, but Greek public and private sector workers struck again on May 30 to protest more than eight years of austerity measures during a long-running economic crisis that has seen successive governments go after them, pensioners and the poor while letting the rich, politicians and tax cheats escape. This time the demonstrators were upset that Prime Minister and Radical Left SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras, breaking anti-austerity vows, had agreed to demands from the country´s international lenders to cut pensions again and put first-time taxes on previously exempt low-and-middle income...