Greece's private sector union will stage a 24-hour general strike on June 15 to protest against new austerity measures and the planned privatisation of state companies, a senior union official said on Wednesday.
"We are fighting the government's mid-term fiscal plan, which destroys the social system and makes people feel miserable and insecure," the general secretary of private sector union GSEE, Nikos Kioutsoukis, told Reuters.
Kioutsoukis said that GSEE, Greece's largest union, has also called a 24-hour strike for June 9 at state companies which the government wants to privatise.
Public sector union ADEDY is likely to join its sister union in the labour action, a senior ADEDY official said.
Reuters
