Greek labor unions stage rally in Athens over new package of austerity measures 新闻, English, 国际英语

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国际英语新闻:Greek labor unions stage rally in Athens over new package of austerity measures
Source:    2011-06-05   English BBS   Favorite   ATHENS, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Thousands members of labor unions工会 marched进军，走过 peacefully in the center of Athens on Saturday protesting a new package of austerity measures紧缩措施 and a privatization私有化 program promoted by the government and EU-International Monetary Fund (IMF) lenders to address the debt crisis which threatened Greece with default违约，缺席，缺乏，系统默认值.
A day after EU-IMF auditors审计员，听者 agreed with Greek officials on the tough terms for the release of the next tranche部分，一期款项 of foreign aid to the debt-ridden债务缠身，负债累累 country next month, the two umbrella labor unions of public and private sector employees ADEDY and GSEE staged a rally集会。公路赛车会，回复 in front of the parliament building国会大厦 to denounce谴责，告发，公然抨击，通告废除 the new measures.
Chanting念咒 slogans口号 such as "We can't take any more" and " Greece is not for sale" and raising banners which read "We will not go until they go", they joined a group of mostly youth Greeks who participate in a Facebook sparked sit-in静坐抗议，静坐罢工 protest in front of the parliament over the past ten days.
"Faced with a new round of massive lay offs from the closure关闭，终止，结束 of state-run国营的，州立的 companies this autumn, cutbacks削减，减少，裁员 on salaries and tax hikes赋税增加 which lead the Greek society to extreme poverty极端贫穷, we call on people to rise up and defend their rights in every possible way against continuing attacks on their rights and the sell out of state assets," said GSEE head Yiannis Panagopoulos, addressing Saturday's demonstration示范，证明，示威游行.
Greek labor unions will participate in an anti-austerity protest across Europe scheduled for Sunday June 5, and have called for a nationwide strike in插嘴 banks and work stoppages停工斗争 in public utility companies affected by the privatization program on June 9 and a general strike大罢工 on June 15 across Greece in all sectors.
The socialist government responds that the painful policies are vital to overcome the crisis and return to growth in 2013. Without the 12 billion euro (17.38 billion U.S. dollars) tranche of aid from the 110-billion euro package secured last year, Greece would default this July.
Greece avoided default last year thanks to the EU-IMF aid, pledging保证，抵押 austerity紧缩，朴素，苦行，严厉 and reform measures to tackle处理，抓住，固定 the crisis, but due to the slow pace of reforms over the past few months, the government is currently under pressure to accelerate positive results with further harsh严厉的，严酷的，刺耳的，粗糙的，刺目的 policies.

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