Port workers start Thursday a 48 hour strike to protest the sale of of the two biggest ports in the country. Athens has promised the sale to international creditors in exchange of much needed loans, Greek media report.
So far, port workers have protested several times in fear of layoffs, but now they are threatening that strikes will be held in all of the country's ports.
They reminded that in 2014, the government of Antonis Samaras started with the sales of about 67 percent of shares held by the two ports in Piraeus and Thessaloniki, by giving two divisions of the Piraeus port to the Chinese giant Kosko, which, according to the, has led to the establishment of medieval working conditions.
The current coalition government, has continued tenders for selling 67 percent of shares.