Greek workers strike, seeking higher wages, tax cut

<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Greek workers walked off the job on this week demanding an increase in the minimum wage and tax cuts after years of harsh austerity.<br/></span></p><p><img src="https://imedia-peoplesdaily.pdnews.cn/up/cms/www/201811/29114616wnrc.jpg" title="VCG125252254_00001.jpg" alt="VCG125252254_00001.jpg"/></p><p><span style="color: rgb(127, 127, 127); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Video source: VCG</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the second major walkout within weeks — organized by Greece&#39;s largest public sector union.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Workers and pensioners united in anger at the austerity they say still makes them suffer.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For analysts, growth in positive territory for six straight quarters and a rising property market give hope for an economy on the mend.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This improvement comes as a recovering euro zone — and its central bank — grapple with their own policy dilemmas.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A slowdown across Europe that many fear is coming is the last thing Greece wants.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Greece’s leaders have based pledges of easing the burdens on common people on a bumper budget surplus target which could soon shrink.&nbsp;</span></p>