Workers in Greece staged a 24-hour general strike this week as thousands of protesters marched in Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki, sparking brief clashes with small groups of protesters who broke away from the main group and threw Molotov cocktails and rocks at police who responded with tear gas. and flash grenades. The strike disrupted services across the country, with ships tied up in port, connections to Greek islands cut, state schools closed, public hospitals operating with reduced staff and most public transport grounded. INFLATION IN GERMANY AT ALMOST 50-YEAR HIGH Amid ENERGY CRISIS A Molotov cocktail explodes near riot police outside the Greek Parliament during clashes in Athens, Greece, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) A similar scene unfolded in Belgium, as reserve performance was reported across the country after workers queued at supermarkets and shopping malls to protest spikes in inflation and energy bills due in part to Russia’s war in Ukraine. More than 100,000 civil servants could walk off the job this winter in the UK to protest cost of living rises. according to the Sunand Reuters reported that drivers working for 12 British train companies announced they would strike on November 26. INFLATION HOLDS US ECONOMY IN OCTOBER AS PRICES REMAIN RECORDLY HIGH Protesters hold banners and chant as they demand decent pay on winter’s eve in front of the Parliament building in Sofia, Bulgaria, Friday, Nov. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova) Striking metro workers shut down half the Paris metro lines on Thursday, a day of strikes and protests across the country French train drivers, teachers and other public sector workers are demanding that the government and employers raise wages to keep up with inflation. Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in France last month in a strike demanding pay rises to keep up with inflation that had reached 6.2%. BIDEN SAYS NO ‘GUARANTEE’ COUNTRY WILL ‘BREAK OUT OF INFLATION’ Scotland’s main teaching union said on Thursday it had won an “overwhelming mandate” to strike alongside a major union of rail and postal workers, who are also threatening to strike this winter, the Financial Times reported. Workers in Spain are also pushing back against cost-of-living increases, with truck drivers calling for an indefinite strike next Monday, News24 has learned. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP People stand in front of a closed metro station Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022 in Paris. Striking workers demanding higher wages shut down half the metro lines in the French capital on Thursday (AP Photo/Michel Euler) Thousands of Bulgarians took to the streets on Friday in a rally organized by the country’s two biggest labor unions to protest inflation and demand higher wages this winter to offset rising living costs. Inflation hit a new record in October in the 19 countries that use the euro currency. Economic growth also slowed ahead of what economists fear is an impending recession, largely as a result of those higher prices reducing Europeans’ ability to spend. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andrew Mark Miller is a writer at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips at [email protected]
