Rail workers have staged rolling, 24-hour strikes since Thursday, bringing the network to a halt
Wednesday’s strike, to be joined by various public sector workers, is expected to disrupt metro, tram and bus services, and ferries will remain docked in ports as seamen join the walkout.
“We will impose safe railways so that no one will ever experience the tragic accident at Tempi ever again,” the main railway workers union said in a statement. “We have an obligation towards our fellow humans and our colleagues who were lost in the tragic accident.” ADEY, the umbrella union representing hundreds of thousands of public sector workers, also called for a day-long strike and protest over the “murderous crime.”Greece sold its state-owned railway operator, now called Hellenic Train, under its international bailout program in 2017 to Italy’s state-owned Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane.
The government, whose term expires this summer, has blamed human error for the crash but Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis appeared to accept some of the criticism, acknowledging decades of neglect could have contributed to the disaster.
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