The bus drivers in Nicosia and Larnaca continue their strike action, despite efforts by the Ministers of Labour and Transport to resolve the public transport crisis.
In particular, workers of Nicosia Public Transport and Larnaca Public Transport, who are on strike, held general assemblies this morning and decided to continue the strike measures that started on Friday afternoon.
This was preceded by a briefing by the representatives of their guilds, OMEPEGE-SEC and SEGDAMELIN-PEO on the latest developments and the intention of the Minister of Labour to take an initiative to solve the problems.
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From there, the two unions are awaiting the setting of a meeting this afternoon by the Labour Minister and assure of their readiness to solve all problems. However, the problem that arises in this case is the fact that the Minister of Labour has made it a condition that the strike be ended and the employer's decision to call a meeting between the parties involved be lifted.
They are escalating the reaction measures
In fact, the strikers will march tomorrow at 9:30 am from Solomou Square to the Ministry of Transport and then to the Ministry of Labour, while resolutions with the workers' problems will be delivered to the Ministry of Transport at 10 am and to the Ministry of Labour at 11:30 am.
"The unions and strikers apologise for the inconvenience to passengers, for which they bear no responsibility," they said in a statement.
It is recalled that the workers, with the support of their guilds SEGDAMELIN-PEO and OMEPEGE-SEK, went on a spontaneous indefinite strike on Friday, demanding the withdrawal of the dismissals of the 36 workers and the continuation of the ongoing dialogue before the Department of Industrial Relations.
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