Transport upheaval.

OGreek railway workers will be walking off the job for four hours starting at 12 noon tomorrow, in a protest that will also affect services to and from Athens International Airport and the tram in the capital. Rail workers are demanding that staff dismissed from railway operator TRAINOSE be hired back into the company, as well as more new hirings and protection for existing jobs. Tram workers have also taken issue with what they say is the Athens municipal authority’s disregard for the tram company’s input in the development of the Grand Walk, a network of pedestrian and bicycle lanes in the city center. They are also complaining about delays in repairing the stretch of the tram line between Kassomouli Street in the Athens neighborhood of Neos Cosmos and Syntagma Square, which was shut down in October 2018 amid concerns that the ground beneath the tracks was at risk of subsiding.