60.6% of Greeks in favor of drastic public sector cuts ? (ANSAmed) – ATHENS – A first wave of 2,000 technical public high school teachers, whose jobs parliament abolished last week, were laid off on Monday. The cut is the first of a long series of workforce reductions international creditors have requested, and is part of a controversial government program to reduce public spending by laying off 15,000 public sector employees this year and another 40,000 by 2014. School guards will be fired next, with city police to follow beginning on September More…
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