The strike, announced for Thursday 15 December, is suspended, the former hourly government staff employed by LGS at Larnaca and Paphos airports, after it was agreed to hold a meeting with the Minister of Labour and Social Insurance Kyriakos Kousios.
As Giorgos Ioulianos, District Secretary of the Larnaca PEA, told the Cyprus News Agency, "the strike mobilisation of hourly staff employed by LGS at Larnaca and Paphos airports, which was announced for tomorrow, Thursday 15 December, has been frozen." The reason for the suspension, he noted, "is the agreement reached today for a meeting with the Minister of Labour and Social Insurance Kyriakos Kousios tomorrow at 12.30 noon at the Ministry."
He added that "in case the outcome of the meeting does not satisfy the trade unions, then we will proceed with the strike measures as announced. What we are asking is that the agreements we have for the former hourly government staff who chose to be employed by the ground service providers be honoured."
Ioulianos noted that "the agreement states that both former hourly government staff and staff employed by the ground service companies, will be employed until the age of 65."
Recall that in a statement issued by PACEY - PEO and SEK, the Guilds would go on strike action on December 15 due to the inability to find a solution to their demands, which they had brought to the attention of the company in their letters on October 7. Despite discussing the whole issue with LGS both in private and in the presence of the relevant Ministries of Labour and Transport, as well as the managing company Hermes Airports Ltd. they have not received any response to resolve the whole issue," it is noted.
It is also stated that "for the protection of the workers, the only way now is for them to react dynamically," noting that they would expect "in writing the resolution of the whole issue before 15 December."
It is noted that the Guilds' statement had been communicated to the Director General of the Ministry of Transport and the Directors of the Mediation Service of the Ministry of Labour and Hermes Airports.
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