Greek public sector workers strike for higher pay

Greece's largest public sector union staged a 24-hour walkout on Wednesday, demanding wage and pension increases from a government still bound to keeping expenditure in check by its lenders.

The strike by the ADEDY union is the first major strike since Greece exited its bailout program in August.

Greece still has limits on what it can spend as it needs to achieve a primary budget surplus - which excludes debt servicing costs - of 3.5 percent of its annual output in the medium-term under a post-bailout supervision program.

The ADEDY union, which represents about half a million public sector workers, wants the left-led SYRIZA government to retract pay and pension cuts and tax increases which were part of three bailout programs since 2010.

"Now is the time the government should be forced to change track, [by] abandoning its extreme policies of...

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