<-----Here is one of the several dumpsters that I walk past on my way to school. They are all as overflowing as this, if not more so.
The one thing about strikes in Greece is that they are generally announced ahead of time. We get an email from CYA a day or two before the strike so we can be prepared. Generally it is the transportation people who are striking, so we hear that the metro won't run to the airport all day on the 24 or that from 11-4 the buses won't be running. Fortunately this does not affect us much as we walk everywhere. But when the garbage men strike, then there are problems.
These strikes are happening quite frequently. The reason for the garbage man strike is that Athens is considering raising the retirement age for them, which they don't like as the job is labor intensive and they get to retire early.
So now it turns out that the strike is over but there is still garbage in the streets. Why? you ask. Apparently there is either no room in the dump or a blockade of the dump by some irate workers (i'm not entirely sure who they are but in my ethnography class it was mentioned).
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