Parliament-LARCO: ‘Pre-planned crime of the Maximos mansion’, the opposition complains

In high tones, the rapporteurs and special speakers of the opposition parties denounced the government for the amendment on LARCO. A while ago, SYRIZA and the KKE submitted a request for a roll-call vote on the amendment.

“Today, the government’s vision for LARCO is being fully realized, after the vote on the February 2020 amendment – which broke eggs, Mr. Vroutsi – which resulted in a 40% reduction in workers’ wages, a cut in gifts, the reduction of bonuses, the complete abandonment of the factory, the reduction of the production process, consequently the productive devaluation of the company “, said the rapporteur of SYRIZA Ioannis Sarakiotis, noting that anyone who knows the workers of the area, knows very well that” they make their cross “, before entering the factory, as for two years now even the standard, self-evident maintenance is not performed. “Yesterday you used the decision of the employees to agree on the amendment. You failed. You are constantly trying to break the front of the employees. They have understood you, but you will fail in your other efforts as well. From the promises for better paid “jobs, where were we? In the dismissal of thousands of workers, with one amendment”, said the SYRIZA MP.

Tonia Antoniou spoke about a “pre-planned crime”, inspired by the Maximos mansion, who took the floor today in plenary, from the position of PASOK-KINAL special speaker.

“LARCO, one of the few heavy industries in our country, is one of the five largest producers of ferro-nickel in the world. The initiative of the New Democracy government in 2020 to include LARCO in a special management regime and effectively close it was a premeditated crime In conditions in which nickel prices are the highest of the last decade, it turns out that the government’s political choice not to produce LARCO according to its capabilities was a conscious method of devaluing it, as the loss of revenue from the “Lost production in recent years has been and is huge,” said the PASOK-KINAL spokeswoman, who noted that her party had repeatedly called on the government to ensure that LARCO continued to operate so that it would not be closed or partially closed. “We called on the government to immediately find solutions to consolidate the business in order to secure jobs and the company to regain extroversion, especially at a time when nickel in international markets, as I said before, is being valued very high,” Tonya said. Antoniou to find out: “Unfortunately, the government does not seem to be in the mood to move from its premeditated decision to make gifts to stickers with state money, sending the bill to the Greek people. As in the case of the banks, it acts as the dealer “of the big and small private interests of the country to the detriment of our workers, small and medium-sized and vulnerable citizens. It does exactly the same in LARCO”.

“Today, the demand for a single operation of” LARCO “, ensuring all the rights of employees and all jobs remains relevant as never before,” said KKE spokesman Manolis Syntyhakis, noting that the government has chosen to bring the amendment in time. the rise of nickel prices, which shows that it remains a treasure, which under other circumstances could really be a significant wealth-producing force for the benefit of the people. “That is why they want to seize LARCO and mines. This crime, then, bears the stamp of all European Union governments with the tool of illegal state aid. You have devalued it, you have slandered it for ten years, without making the necessary modernizations, culminating in the last two and a half years that the New Democracy government intensified in a special liquidation aimed at selling it “, said Manolis Syntyhakis and underlined that LARO It can and must remain open, developed and modernized, but it must ensure the work and the rights of the workers, as the KKE has proposed and still proposes.

“It is emblematic, in terms of method and content, what you are doing for LARCO, in addition to leaving people homeless, without food,” said, addressing the government, the special speaker of MERA25 Kriton Arsenis. “We are talking about over a thousand people in five different areas of our country, you leave them without tomorrow, people who have given their lives, their hands. Accidents at work in LARCO were something everyday. Anyone who has gone to the mobilizations will see “People are missing fingers, they are missing members. They have given their soul and body for LARCO and you are throwing them with a single shot in the street, in Kaiadas of unemployment”, said Kriton Arsenis who accused the government of “mafia practice” “and” deception of Justice “, saying:” The employees had appealed with precautionary measures against the respective dismissals proposed by the manager at the time. The trial was for May 6, the manager went -your choice- and asked for a postponement of the insurance before the end of this consultation, which you never did, bring the amendment to stop by the procedure, this time not allowing the court to rule on your measures “.

Source: AMPE