ND calls on gov't to revoke raise agreement for PPC
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) called on the government on Tuesday to revoke a decision raising the salaries of Public Power Corporation employees decided between PPC's managers and the workers' union GENOP.
ND spokesman Costas Karagounis charged the government with "lying to cover the provocative increases approved to its party friends" and named among them former GENOP leader Nikos Fotopoulos and other unionists. The raises were approved on February 28, with the full approval of the relevant minister, he said.
The government is "deeply hypocritical," he said, for giving a 6-euro per day raise to PPC employees (for feeding expenses), while it promises to give only 1.5 euros a day each to 300,000 people to deal with "the humanitarian crisis."
"It's inconceivable this is happening when the government is cutting hospital budgets in half, when it pre-announces emergency tax and a rise of VAT, when it raises the fee for the state broadcaster's operation, just to make its party clientele happy," he said.
The 6-euro raise and the end of layoffs are the basic parts of a new collective work agreement in effect until 2018, and includes a 2-euro (per month) from each union member's salary in order to pay off a loan GENOP got from PPC.
It includes special benefits to PPC front office staff like an extra 4 vacation days a year and a daily stipend of up to 5 euros following the end of the medium-term fiscal strategy framework.
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