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The first autumn nationwide strike in Greece organized by the trade unions of public sector employees (ADEDY) and private sector employees (GSEE) will be held on Wednesday.

It will involve civil servants, their counterparts in state enterprises, insurance funds, municipalities, officers in banks, judicial institutions, and school and university teachers.

Doctors and medical staff will take part in the strike too while staff on duty will serve the patients of hospitals, medical centres and the emergency cases.

The trains of the entire rail network, trolley buses and the train that serves the suburbs in Athens will not be running for twenty-four hours. Buses in Athens will be serving their routes from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm.

The electric train in Athens, trams and the underground will be running normally except for the area from "Doukisis Plakentias" bus stop to "Eleftherios Venizelos" Airport.

During the strike, air traffic controllers will stop working from twelve o’clock to 3:00 pm. Ships will remain docked in ports, because of the participation of dockworkers, seafarers and port workers in the protest.

The main protest rally will take place at "Pedion tou Areos" park at 11:00 am. The members of the trade union of the Communist Party of Greece traditionally will hold a separate protest in Omonia Square at 10:30 am.

The union of public sector employees ADEDY will organize the protest to oppose "the cuts in the public sector for which the Greek government has agreed with the Troika, the new unbearable taxes included in the budget for 2014 as well as the government’s intention to reduce once again the salaries, pensions, auxiliary pensions and the lump-sum payment upon retirement."