Workers began a day-long nationwide strike over what they call a “deepening crisis” of rising prices and squeezed incomes, disrupting transport, ferries, schools and public hospitals. The two biggest unions, representing about 2.5 million public and private sector workers, called the general strike which culminated in a protest in Athens.
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