Striking port workers are preventing hundreds of passengers from boarding ferries in Greece's main port of Piraeus, despite a court ruling declaring their strike illegal.
ATHENS (AP) --
Tempers have frayed at the port, with passengers arguing and occasionally scuffling with striking workers preventing them from accessing the ships.
Only two of 14 unions represented in the main port workers' umbrella union were participating in Wednesday's 24-hour strike, called by a communist party-backed labor group. Ferry firms had said late Tuesday they planned to go ahead with scheduled routes after a court declared the port workers' intent to strike illegal.
The workers are protesting government austerity measures designed to pull Greece out of a financial crisis that saw it come to the brink of default last month.
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