Greek civil servants and private sector workers will strike for 24 hours on 5 May to protest against austerity measures, private sector union GSEE said on Tuesday.
“We decided to strike for one day on 5 May together with the public sector union ADEDY to fight government policies which hurt workers and deepen the recession,” GSEE spokesman Stathis Anestis told Reuters.
ADEDY and GSEE together represent about 2.5 million workers, half of Greece’s workforce. The walkout will be their third joint strike against the government’s deficit-cutting plans since the beginning of the year.
Athens is in talks with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund on additional steps it needs to make in order to get a planned 45-billion-euro aid package.
