May 27, 2012
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Protests shaking Greece once again
Demonstrators chant slogans during a march outside the Greek parliament on Thursday.
21 May 2010 / AP , ATHENS
Thousands of protesters gathered in central Athens Thursday as unions held a general strike against austerity measures, two weeks after violent protests left three people dead in a bank fire.
Demonstrators planned two rallies in the Greek capital as the strike closed schools, halted ferries and trains, and kept hospitals running on emergency staff.
Unions are protesting harsh measures imposed by the cash-strapped government. During Greece’s last general strike on May 5, three workers -- including a pregnant woman -- died when a bank was torched by rioters. Public anger has grown against deep pension and salary cuts, as well as steep tax hikes, imposed in an attempt to pull Greece out of an unprecedented debt crisis.
In central Athens, members of a communist-backed labor union staged an occupation of the Labor Ministry. Police did not intervene to end the occupation. Thursday’s major strike -- the fourth this year -- affected all public and many private employers.
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