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Athens (Greece), Nov 26 (EFE), (Camera: Alberto Borreguero).- The personnel of Greek hospitals and other sectors of the public administration participated ion Thursday in a 24-hour strike to demand more investment in health and in protest against a bill that restricts the right to strike and makes the labour market even more flexible. FOOTAGE OF THE STRIKE IN ATHENS. SOUNDBITES OF A PROTESTER: "We are on strike because our life is in danger, our labour rights are also in danger with the draft law and we don't even have a job. We live in a dystopia in which there is no work to strike."
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