Strikes halt trains, ferries and taxis in Greece a year after the country's worst rail disaster
GREECE was brought to a standstill by strikes on trains, taxis and ferries today that coincided with the anniversary of a deadly rail crash a year ago.
Greece’s deadliest rail disaster killed 57 people, many of them university students, when a passenger train collided with an oncoming cargo train in the north.
Public transport services in Athens were disrupted by the 24-hour strike, organised by Greece’s largest public-sector union ADEDY, to press demands to further dismantle wage controls imposed during the country’s 2010-18 financial crisis.
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