Municipal public school guard Yiorgos Avramidis, 43, married with two children of three and six, from the northern Greek town of Edessa, is comforted by colleagues in front of a police line guarding the Greek parliament in Athens on late July 17, 2013, as Greece’s shaky coalition government scraped through a vote on a bill to sack public sector workers. The bill includes deeply divisive plans for a transfer and layoff scheme for 25,000 public workers - mainly teachers and municipal police - that had triggered a week of almost daily marches, rallies and strikes in protest. Avramidis is one of the more than 2,000 public school guards that lost their jobs. Yannis Behrakis/Reuters
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 06:15:06 +0000