Greek public workers strike against austerity drive

A strike by Greek civil servants Wednesday brought the debt-laden country to a halt. Government offices, schools and colleges were closed and there were only emergency services in hospitals. Flights across Greece were suspended as air traffic controllers joined the protest and rail services were disrupted. Duration: 01:07.

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[arjenyan]

stop your army budgets! As Greek people, we, the Turks, have been suffering for a long time because of the so-called armament race! We have to destroy militaristic notions among our societies. I wish, Greece would be rescued from these troubles, and would not look down their eastern neighbor. Keep the peace!

[jjiggydoc]

Same thing is coming to the USA. Sorry greece!

[GreeceCombination]

@100crawma fuck,you

bastard

[DoelGr]

its not our fault that unions are raping our country alongside the politicians,people from private sector are helpless and cut off from the system,greeks work very hard every day but those shitheads rape the budget and they just want more...we are not lazy or communists,its the socialist propaganda that grew inside our heads...and for fuck sake EU is lending to pay other loans and at pretty big interest,its not like we take that money and live lovely lifes...pls people dont be hypocrits...

[Teranex]

Fuck up your economy and then blame the EU, so typical from incompetent people...

[aggelospanatha]

As a greek WE are to blame for the huge deficit for electing incompetent politicians during the last decade. However, the EU should help it's members. They only lended us with a rate higher than the one the IMF charges! The really annoying thing is that some members such as Germany and Austria think that they did a "big favor". If they had just supported us politically in the beginning, we would never have needed this bail out in the first place!

[SuperAcab666]

Loved to see that filthy EU piece of shit rag burn, and liked the pig mask inthe end:-D

Pigs are the bankers and EU and IMF who get their pockets filled with our money.

Resperct and (A) from Denmark:-D Keep burning EU flags:-DDDD

[Apokorwnioths1984]

@RadoDani It's ok, what you said stands for a percentage about 15% who work for the public sector and enjoy permanent job status. We blame these people ourselves because they are our drawback. The problem is when 85% of hard working people of private sector are being equilized to the ones who do not work. Besides it isn't pure luck that according to OECD stats Greeks are second in annual work hours only to Koreans. Many work in 2 jobs

[RadoDani]

@Apokorwnioths1984 Hmm. I see. My appologies. I removed my (misleading/idiotic) comments. I sincerely hope everything goes well for Greece in the future … especially for the young people working in the private sector who don't get the preferential treatment … something I can relate to myself.

[Apokorwnioths1984]

@RadoDani Bailout has nothing to do with supporting Greek social system, that's why you will hardly find any Greek (even the ones who do not burn EU flags) who appreciates EU for the supposed "help". This money will go to some EU banks and not to Greek people (salaries/pensions go down all the time). So think before making comments. Greek people owe nothing to EU

You should get over your worship for EU and Germany, they aren't gonna help you improve your quality of life as they did for noone

[Apokorwnioths1984]

@RadoDani These particular people who burn EU flags are communists (about 8% of Greek electorate), and they didn't vote for the incompetent Greek governments in the first place. Not that i support them, but you should consider that before making comments that hardly make sense blaming all Greeks for a youtube video presenting communists. Obviously the ones who voted the government parties do not burn EU flags.