EAC unions prepare for anti-privatisation measures

STATE electricity company (EAC) unions are once more threatening measures over plans to privatise the organisation and changes to the way the market operates.

Unions claim the energy ministry was trying to reduce the size of the EAC, sale off its assets and lease its most productive units to third parties.

Workers have decided to hold general assemblies to discuss the privatisation and decide what measures to take.

“It’s unacceptable for the ministry, which should have been the guardian of the EAC, to arrange the sell off of its units abroad, and even worse, to lease the most productive units,” EPOPAI chairman Andreas Panorkos said.

Having the best interest of the Cypriot people in mind, the unions will ask parliament to put an end to the goings on he said.

“At the same time, we have been authorised to hold general assemblies and take any measures we deem necessary,” he said.

Unions claimed that the government was trying to remove powers from parliament and transfer them to the finance minister.

 

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