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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Photos Sitemap Greece heads for further general strike AFP - Wednesday, March 10 Send IM Story Print A man walks past a huge replica of the last mint of the old Greek drachma in Athens on March 9. Greek tax and garbage collectors walked off their jobs for a second day Tuesday as the country braced for a second general strike against government austerity measures. ATHENS (AFP) - – Greek tax and garbage collectors walked off their jobs for a second day Tuesday as the country braced for a second general strike against government austerity measures. Over a million civil servants, workers and private sector staff have been called upon to strike Thursday by the country's two main unions and attend street protests. The general strike, the second in two weeks, is likely to paralyse much of daily life across the country with ministries, public services, banks and schools shut down and hospitals running on reduced staff. Flights to and from Greece also will be grounded throughout Thursday as the air traffic controllers' union announced it would join the protest. "We will participate in the 24-hour strike decided by the unions. There will therefore be no flights going to or coming from Greece from midnight (2200 GMT) Wednesday to midnight Thursday," a spokesman for the Air Traffic Controllers' Association of Greece (EEKE) told AFP Tuesday. Greece's Aegean Airlines previously announced in a statement it would cancel all its flights Thursday, and moved forward the times of several Wednesday evening flights. A support strike by sailors will tie up ships at harbour. Rail transport is also likely to be disrupted. The unions are outraged by a wave of state spending cuts and tax hikes intended to cut this year's deficit of 12.7 percent of output and to get to grips with the country's debt of nearly 300 billion euros (410 billion euros). "The government's measures pile further misery on the lowest wages in Europe, leading to prolonged recession and unemployment," the civil servants' union Adedy said in its strike call. The spending cuts -- including an unprecedented reduction in paid holiday allowances -- constitute an effective salary reduction of between 20 and 30 percent for civil servants, the union said. A new poll late Monday found that 65.3 percent of Greeks believe the austerity measures to be 'unfair'. The Greek economy, which is mired in a recession, ran into more trouble on Tuesday when the national statistics agency reported the annual inflation rate jumped by four points to 2.8 percent in February. Unemployment currently stands at over 10 percent. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, currently on an international tour to muster support for Greece's debt-cutting efforts, was scheduled to meet with US President Barack Obama later Tuesday. Papandreou has urged the United States to crack down on currency speculators amid reports that some US funds have placed big bearish bets against the euro. "Unprincipled speculators are making billions every day by betting on a Greek default," he said in a public address on Monday. The prospect of a possible Greek default has roiled global financial markets, putting pressure on the euro, and even raising questions about the long-term viability of European monetary union. But Greece's financial woes are unlikely to faze German holiday goers who flock here in droves each year, the head of Germany's tourism board Klaus Laepple said in Berlin. "I won't mince my words here. I believe that it will have barely any consequence at all," Laepple said. Some 2.3 million Germans went to Greece last year, their fourth most favoured European destination after Spain, Italy and Turkey. Papandreou's approval ratings remain high at home, with a poll Sunday showing 52 percent of Greeks have confidence in his efforts to pull the country of its debt crisis. 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