GREEK unions will stage a general strike today in protest against government plans to restrict the right to take industrial action.

Prime minister Alexis Tsipras’s coalition government struck a deal with the country’s bailout creditors last week that will also see further privatisation of a state power company.

Clashes outside the office of Mr Tsipras followed the announcement of the deal and calling of the general strike by the ADEDY civil servants’ union, to protest against pension and salary cuts and to demand pay rises and public-sector hiring.