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Flights to and from Greece will be grounded for four hours on Thursday when air traffic controllers will join public and private sector unions in a strike against government austerity measures.Air traffic controllers said they would walk off the job between 0700 and 1100 GMT to protest against a controversial pension reform but also to ask for payment of overtime."We gave the government a deadline to deal with our issues. It expired on June 30," Yannis Kourmoulakis, general secretary of the air traffic controllers union told Reuters on Tuesday."We haven't been paid overtime work since February."Greece's main unions, representing about 2.5 million workers -- or half of the country's workforce -- will stage a 24-hour strike on July 8.Their protest will coincide with the final parliamentary vote on a pension reform that curbs early retirement, raises retirement age and is part of an austerity package agreed with the EU and the IMF in return for a 110 billion euro bailout.Olympic Air said it cancelled 28 return flights to domestic destinations, including Myconos and Santorini islands, and rescheduled 23 flights, including international destinations such as Paris, London and Rome.Aegean Airlines also cancelled six domestic round flights and said it would possibly reschedule another 22 flights.Air traffic controllers said they would also stage a one-day strike on July 14.Tourism, which accounts for nearly a fifth of Greece's GDP, has been hit by series of strikse that have sometimes turned violent. Air traffic controllers did not take part in the last two general strikes in May and June, saying they did not want to further hurt the sector.(Reporting by Renee Maltezou; Editing by Ingrid Melander and Ralph Boulton)(For more news on Reuters India, click http://in.reuters.com)
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