New Democracy´s Turn to Face Worker Strikes
(WorldNews Greece)

ATHENS - New Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ honeymoon is over as far as Greek workers are concerned, less than three months after he won July 7 snap elections. Strikes against the new government on Oct. 2, including by journalists, stopped ferries and transport services whose workers were joined in the action by those in public hospitals, banks and schools. It was coordinated by the country’s two biggest unions, representing public and private workers who are angry over a new labor bill they said would undermine collective bargaining rights and the right to strike and with the government letting people be fired without cause. Staff at newspapers,...