{"id":277512,"date":"2010-02-04T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/just-when-greece-thought-the-worst-was-over-its-biggest-union-goes-on-strike-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-04T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:58:00","slug":"awesome-timing-greeces-biggest-union-goes-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/277512","title":{"rendered":"Awesome Timing: Greece&#8217;s Biggest Union Goes On Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/greece\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b6b1527000000000056f0c2\/greece-labor-union-strike-ap-gsee.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"greece labor union strike AP gsee\" \/><\/a>Oh God.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aN2G_2S_aP2M&amp;pos=9\">Bloomberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Greece&rsquo;s biggest union approved the second mass strike this month and tax collectors began a 48-hour walkout, showing that Prime Minister George Papandreou&rsquo;s parliamentary majority may not be enough to implement his plan to cut the European Union&rsquo;s largest deficit.<\/p>\n<p>GSEE, which represents about 2 million workers in the private sector, voted at a meeting in Athens today to walk out Feb. 24. The main public-employee union plans a Feb. 10 strike to protest spending cuts as Papandreou steps up budget cuts to persuade investors Greece won&rsquo;t need a bailout.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aN2G_2S_aP2M&amp;pos=9\">Continue reading -&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/just-when-greece-thought-the-worst-was-over-its-biggest-union-goes-on-strike-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/failed-bond-sale-to-china-hits-already-lagging-confidence-in-greece-2010-1\">Greece Once Again Denies It Needs A Bailout Even As China Refuses To Buy Debt And CDS Prices Soar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/spain-goes-on-offensive-cuts-everything-to-combat-debt-crisis-2010-1\">Spain Goes On Offensive, Cuts Everything To Combat Debt Crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/reach-capitals-nigel-hart-dont-worry-about-the-piigs-theyre-the-building-blocks-of-the-markets-wall-of-worry-2010-1\">Reach Capital&#8217;s Nigel Hart: Don&#8217;t Worry About The PIIGS, They&#8217;re The Building Blocks Of The Market&#8217;s &quot;Wall Of Worry&quot;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/tGzJgVpHoOk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh God. Bloomberg: Greece&rsquo;s biggest union approved the second mass strike this month and tax collectors began a 48-hour walkout, showing that Prime Minister George Papandreou&rsquo;s parliamentary majority may not be enough to implement his plan to cut the European Union&rsquo;s largest deficit. GSEE, which represents about 2 million workers in the private sector, voted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}