The LARCO amendment tabled by the government provokes the strong reaction of the entire opposition. At the beginning of the discussion of the bill in which the amendment was tabled, the opposition demanded its withdrawal.
The amendment, said the parliamentary representative of the KKE Nikos Karathanassopoulos who first asked for the floor, “with this repressed article (article 6), gives the right to the special liquidator of LARCO to proceed with collective dismissals of all employees and at the same time to conclude contracts fixed time, one or two months “.
“It is a provocative method by the government to bypass the workers’ reactions, the long-term struggle to maintain the company and the jobs, but also to prevent the decision of the court that will meet on June 17, to which they have appealed. “workers with precautionary measures against collective redundancies”, said Nikos Karathanassopoulos and added that this article is a “crime”, both to the detriment of LARCO employees and to the detriment of its productive potential.
“The government is trying to get rid of the so-called burdens that are the rights of workers and their achievements and to hand over the company, without employees with rights, to the appetites of the aspiring investor,” said the KKE parliamentary representative, noting that if the government does not withdraw the article on LARCO will submit a request for a roll call vote. He also spoke of another step in LARCO’s prescribed devaluation, in which all governments have joined hands.
The official opposition will also submit a request for a roll-call vote, according to SYRIZA parliamentary representative Euclid Tsakalotos, who complained that the amendment was tabled on Friday night and after the drafting of the bill had been completed in the House committee. has no confidence in Parliamentary committees and parliamentary dialogue. “What is being done in this House once again is unacceptable. Amendment coming Friday, after the committees, to reduce the political cost to the government. You are only interested in the political cost and not the substance, not the debate, no the compromise “, said Mr. Tsakalotos.
“The deindustrialisation of the country continues in an unacceptable way. Once again we are shooting ourselves in the foot,” said the parliamentary representative of the Hellenic Solution, Konstantinos Hitas, who also demanded the withdrawal of the provision for LARCO because it leads to a lockout at a time when prices of nickel are high.
More than 85%, maybe 90% of nickel is produced by our country, said the parliamentary representative of MERA25 Kleon Grigoriadis and stressed that if this “defeated” amendment is voted, in addition to 1084 workers who will be left on the street, more than 300 families will remain homeless. Mr. Grigoriadis accused the government of bringing the order to the Parliament in a “mafia” way, “without even daring to mention the name of LARCO in its wording”.
“It is inconceivable what is being done with the amendments, it is degrading the parliamentary process,” said PASOK-KINAL parliamentary representative Nadia Giannakopoulou, who stressed that LARCO is one of the few heavy industries in the country and is one of the five largest iron producers. in the world. “In 2020, you took a legislative initiative, which we told you would be ineffective. And this is proven today by including it in a special regime, at a time when iron-nickel prices are the highest of the decade,” said Ms. Giannakopoulou. and complained that it is a clear political choice of the government not to produce LARCO, according to its capabilities.
“We are talking in here, as if we are here as strangers among strangers. That is, is the government insensitive? Does it want to hurt workers and the economy? Is not it a matter of political life for decades now?” ND Giannis Vroutsis and added that the government, with full consistency with the past and its commitments, brought the amendment because LARCO is a company with tens of millions of losses and these losses burden the state budget, ie the taxpayer. “The government is seeking intervention for the consolidation, with a provision of 32 million which will support the employees with employment programs, for some to retire, for the consolidation to proceed so that LARCO is profitable in the future. transition is a political decision for us, the employees are supported, but at the end of the process, however, it will benefit the Greek people and the public finances of the country “.
The government did not bring the amendment in secret, said Deputy Finance Minister Apostolos Vesyropoulos, adding that the amendment is timely and will be discussed in detail today, along with all the articles of the bill. “The minister, after his meeting with the German Federal Minister for Finance, will be here to discuss the issue in detail,” Mr Vesyropoulos said.
Source: AMPE
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