"Pensioners in particular demand from the state to give us our money back. Employees demand good labor conditions and wages. We will continue our struggle to the end," Antonis Birbilis, Secretary of the Pensioners' Union of former Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE) employees, told Xinhua.
Wednesday's labor action follows a 24-hour strike organized by the umbrella trade union of the public sector ADEDY earlier this November, and a long series of strikes and protests staged in the past eight years of the Greek debt crisis with similar demands.
Over 20,000 protests were held across Greece during the first six years of the crisis, according to official statistics released by the Greek Police. Half of the rallies were staged in Athens.
Tens of thousands of people flooded the streets several times, but in many cases fewer than 1,000 people participated in the demonstrations, according to the official data.
In recent years the wave of rallies has receded, but still labor unions warn that strikes and demonstrations will go on until people win the war against austerity.
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