The
labor union of the Public Power Corporation (PPC) yesterday called off
a strike scheduled for November 12 and 13, saying that management
appeared to have frozen plans to carve up the corporation into six
entities and shelved the creation of new plants that it intended to
hand over to private enterprise.
Earlier, union activists had staged a
temporary “token” occupation of the office of the corporation’s CEO,
Takis Athanassopoulos. The union demanded that of the 3,200 megawatts
of new capacity that PPC plans to create, at least 800 MW should be
realized without the closure of old units. Management said talks with
the union on the optimization of the corporation’s structure and
productive potential had proved fruitful and that the occupation of the
CEO’s office appeared meaningless.