The employees of the Pafos Public Transport Company (OSYPA) decided to suspend the 24-hour strike announced for November 25, accepting the invitation of the Department of Labour Relations of the Ministry of Labour to a meeting.
According to a joint announcement, the trade unions OMEPEGE-SEK and SEGDAMELIN-PEO inform that the workers of OSYPA have decided to suspend the planned twenty-four-hour strike for Monday, November 25.
Trade unions and staff will attend a meeting, called by the Department of Labour Relations, in a last-ditch effort to find a mutually acceptable proposal for the renewal of the Collective Labour Agreement.
The aim of the employees, the announcement added, "is to resolve the laboyr issues that concern and affect them, in an effort not to inconvenience the traveling public from possible strike action, for which the workers bear no responsibility."
In his statements, the Secretary General of the Cyprus Federation of Transport, Petroleum Products and Agriculture (OMEPEGE-SEK), Charalambos Avgousti, said that the aim is not the strike measures and the inconvenience of the traveling public, but the renewal of the Collective Labor Agreement and the resolution of labour issues through dialogue.
He added that workers remain open to dialogue, hoping that a solution will soon be found that will safeguard their rights and restore normality to the operation of public transport. Therefore, they will come to Monday's meeting in a positive spirit, to find a mutually acceptable solution.
In her own statements, the General Secretary of SEGDAMELIN PEO Natia Kyritsi said that the labor side will come to the meeting in good faith and expects a proposal to be given by the Ministry that will be in the context of the renewals of the Contracts made to other companies in the Sector, which will meet the needs of the public transport workers of Pafos and will include regulations that will substantially improve the daily life and work of the Workers.
