Greek workers hold rally against reform on strike action

Ships stayed in port and public buses and trains ran on reduced services in Greece on Tuesday as workers staged their first mass walkout since a new conservative government took office in July.

The government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis came to power on pledges to speed up investment and spur growth in a country where economic output shrank by a quarter during a multi-year financial crisis.

Tuesday's action was triggered by government labor reforms, including moves to change some rules governing the calling of strikes, allowing changes to collective working agreements under certain conditions and setting up a registry for labor unions, which have called the move an attempt to control them.

Holding banners reading "Hands off Unions," several thousand Greeks marched peacefully through central Athens under light rain on Tuesday.

"The draft law...