Greek media workers go on strike

May 28th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

The employees walked off their jobs for 24 hours on Sunday to oppose Athens’ economic policies and the reforms introduced to tackle Greece’s financial crisis.

Television and radio stations have suspended broadcasting and there will be no newspapers on Tuesday.

The journalists demand collective contracts from the media managements which are significantly more beneficial to the workers than the individual ones.

Greeks have been protesting against the state’s austerity cuts since early 2011, when the government first implemented the measures.

Greece has been the epicenter of the eurozone debt crisis and is experiencing its fifth year of recession. One fifth of the Greek workers are unemployed, banks have become shaky, and pensions and salaries have been slashed by up to 40 percent.

In 2011, the country made a deal with the IMF and the European Union to receive hundreds of billions of euros in bailout funds to avoid a financial collapse, in return for tough austerity measures.

People will head to the polls for a second time in six weeks on June 17 in a general election that could determine whether the country should continue to receive IMF funds and stay in the eurozone.

PG/JR/AZ