repeated 48ωÏων strikes the management of the Pan-hellenic Seamen’s Federation, which met today, has decided on the immediate temporary suspension of strike the industrial action while remaining on alert and “waiting for hard evidence from those in government to solve the problems, in accordance with the declarations,” says features the PNO in its communication.
According to the members of the PNO, the government and the ministers responsible should reconsider their negative behavior in dealing with fair and hot their requests and to understand once and for all that the seafarers are not asking for anything new but just struggling to salvage what they have left after the constant cuts, which took the industry by the repeated blows of the Troika and the Government”.
With the announcement of the Federation, have made it clear that the written and oral assurances, the minister of Marine and the minister of Finance, for the tax, “functioned in the present as a principle fire-extinguishing medium, but very clearly and undoubtedly they are not, and the satisfaction of the requests”
“There will be a sequel”
However, the PNO which characterizes the εννιαήμεÏη strike as the “beginning of new games,” proclaims that if soon there are no substantive solutions to the demands of their industry, there will be a further escalation of their struggle.
It is recalled that on the occasion of yesterday’s incidents that took place in the port of Heraklion between farmers and dockers, when angry agricultural producers were asked to load the trucks with perishable and agricultural products to promote in the markets, the minister of Marine and Island Policy Panagiotis ΚουÏουμπλής speaking to a tv station, stressed that the pan-Hellenic Maritime Federation, “if you don’t come to his senses, will take over the responsibilities. But I believe that reason will prevail,” he said.
Even the President of the Panhellenic Union of Sailors of the Merchant Navy (ΠΕÎΕÎ) Antonis ÎταλακογιώÏγος, in a statement, ‘the sad and dangerous events”, with the “responsibility to weigh only the government, the MINISTRY and the police – port forces, which have shown unprecedented inaction in the face of quasi-government actions of the so-called indignant farmers who are they targeting as the enemy the fighting ναυτεÏγατικό movement and the seafarers who give a hard and difficult struggle of the same professional status”, stated the president of the ΠΕÎΕÎ.
The episodes in Crete seemed to take on large dimensions when a fire broke out destroying the offices of the maritime shipping company ANEK – Superfast, which from the side of the featured unfair and unnecessary attack.
The company in its communication stresses that stands by and supports the just struggles and demands of farmers and seamen, however, condemns such actions which may endanger the life and physical integrity of citizens and workers”.
SLEEP: we Stop for the time being, but there will be a sequel
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