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Passengers wait outside a ferry as protesters block the entrance of a ferry at Piraeus port, near Athens
GREEK seafarers crippled ferry services to the nation’s many islands today as they took strike action in defiance of a court order.
Trade unionists blockaded the main port of Piraeus, preventing anyone from boarding. Hundreds of passengers sat with luggage at the port, many blaming the ferry companies for failing to inform anyone of the planned strike.
The strike is among a series of actions planned by unions against new legislation abolishing the eight-hour day and the five-day week, as well as removing collective bargaining rights, enabling employers to “agree” terms with individual workers.
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