EAC - WORKERS GO ON A THREE HOUR WORK STOPPAGE OVER THE PROBLEMS IN THE ENERGY SECTOR - TODAY 8-11AM - Filenews 18/3
The employees of the Electricity Authority of Cyprus are going on a three-hour work stoppage from 8 to 11 in the morning today, protesting against serious problems that, as they report, concern the EAC and the electricity sector.
In a letter to the EAC Board of Directors, the organization's trade unions noted that the painful situation in which the electricity sector has fallen is worsening, with negative consequences for consumers and the country's economy, due to the lack of Strategic Planning of the state and the obstruction and inaction of the competent bodies.
They pointed out that in any meetings they had with the Board, during which there was a common understanding and identification of views and positions, they stressed that the Authority should rise to the occasion and promote solutions to the serious problems that concern the EAC and the Energy Sector. "We regret to note that these remain unresolved and in addition we observe actions by the state, which complicate the situation," they added in the letter.
They pointed out that the State, instead of dealing with what needs to be done in the energy sector to ensure electricity sufficiency, security of supply, consumer support and photovoltaics, really for everyone, "is consumed in imaginative and unrealistic proposals, which are evolving into a fiasco, increasing instead of decreasing the cost of electricity".
