(9 Apr 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Piraeus, Greece – 9 April 2025
1. Close of mooring rope and bollards at ferry port
2. Various of docked ferries
3. Close of Greek flag
4. Various of docked ferries
5. Close of stop sign
6. Wide of blocked entrance to ferry
7. Close of bollard and mooring rope
8. Mid of docked ferries
9. Various of people walking past closed ticket offices
10. Wide of banner reading (Greek): "Strike April 9"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Athens, Greece – 9 April 2025
11. Wide of empty tracks at main national rail station
12. Close of tracks
13. Wide of empty platform
14. Wide of man walking on platform
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16. Wide of entrance to station
17. Close of sign on station building reading (Greek/French): "Central Station"
18. Mid of placards announcing general strike on lampposts and poles
19. Close of placard announcing strike
20. Wide of Syntagma Square with Greek parliament building in background
21. Mid of people walking in square
22. Wide of closed metro station
23. Close of shut metro station gate
24. Close of metro station sign
25. Various of traffic
26. Various of people waiting at bus stop
27. Various of tram station
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29. Mid of tourist bus
30. Close of people walking up steps from Syntagma Square towards parliament building
31. Wide of parliament building
STORYLINE:
A nationwide general strike in Greece disrupted public services across the country on Wednesday, with ferries tied up in port, flights grounded and public transportation running only part time.
The strike comes as labour unions press for an end to lingering austerity measures imposed on Greece by international creditors a decade ago.
The 24-hour strike was called by the two main umbrella unions covering the public and private sectors.
They are seeking increases in salaries and a full return of collective bargaining rights which were scrapped as part of international bailouts during Greece’s financial crisis.
Commercial flights to and from Greece and between domestic destinations were cancelled from midnight Wednesday until midnight Thursday, while in the Greek capital buses, trolleys, trains, trams and the subway system were operating only for part of the day.
The country is currently battling a hike in the cost of living amid concern that global financial turmoil triggered by U.S. tariffs could lead to further hardship.
“The high cost of living is eating away at workers’ incomes, without any care from the government,” said a statement by the General Confederation of Workers of Greece, the private sector’s umbrella union, which added that a large segment of the country’s population spends more than 40% of its income on housing and heating.
The umbrella union for the public sector, known by its acronym ADEDY, called for wage increases and the return of holiday bonuses for civil service, which were equivalent to two months’ salary before they were abolished as part of bailout austerity measures.
Unions planned three protest marches in central Athens later Wednesday morning, with similar demonstrations scheduled in other cities.
AP video shot by Srdjan Nedeljkovic
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