The Reuters news agency reports that traffic has been stopped in Athens due to a strike by transport workers. Thus, the movement of the metro, buses and trams is paralyzed in the Greek capital..
The current protest action began today, on the thirteenth of December, and will last for twenty-four hours. Its participants are protesting against the government’s cuts in wages and job cuts. Utility workers and journalists are also involved in the strike..
So the agency «Agence France-Presse» reports that the government intends to reduce wages to public utilities by twenty-five percent, as well as to cut jobs in this area. At the same time, the agency notes that according to the government’s statement, salary cuts will be applied only to those workers in the communal sector who receive more than one thousand eight hundred euros per month..
Note that the plans for social cuts are the next step in the government program to cut budget spending. Similar steps are required by the European Union, which last spring provided the country with a multi-billion dollar loan to overcome the financial crisis in Greece..
More than ten protests and demonstrations have taken place in Greece since May. According to unofficial information, protests will resume on December 15, on Wednesday.
