Greece’s largest trade union called Tuesday for a 24-hour strike next week to protest austerity measures, which would be the first major walkout since the appointment of an interim coalition government earlier this month.
The GSEE union, which represents mainly private sector workers, said it was aiming for a general strike on Dec. 1, but was waiting for a decision later Tuesday by the country’s civil servants’ union as to whether they would join. Greece’s last general strike, held in October, saw services across the country shut down for two days.
