ATHENS, (Reuters) – Greek workers staged a nationwide strike yesterday, forcing hospitals to work on emergency staff and disrupting transport, in protest against the “sudden death” of state broadcaster ERT, switched off in the middle of the night by the government.
Greece’s two biggest labour unions plan to bring much of the near-bankrupt country to a standstill during the 24-hour strike against Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s decision to close down ERT, which they describe as “coup-like move… to gag unbiased information.”
The government described its decision to shut the 75-year-old broadcaster as a
