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Municipal public school guard Yiorgos Avramidis, 43, married with two children of three and six, from the northern Greek town of Edessa, is comforted by colleagues in front of a police line guarding the Greek parliament in Athens, as Greece's shaky coalition government scraped through a vote on a bill to sack public sector workers, on July 17, 2013. The bill includes deeply divisive plans for a transfer and layoff scheme for 25,000 public workers - mainly teachers and municipal police - that had triggered a week of almost daily marches, rallies and strikes in protest. Avramidis is one of the more than 2,000 public school guards who lost their jobs. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)
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