Electric-Power Cuts Continue

[Ellinas]

In an attempt to prevent a black out across Greece due to the PPC (Public Power Corporation) employee strike electric-power cuts are taking place in the biggest part of the country. PPC has decided to extend its mobilizations until Wednesday in reaction to the government’s fresh measures in the Social Security System.

As 19 electric-power plants are occupied the produced electric-power has been reduced by half. Meanwhile, PPC’s lawsuit against the PPC General Staff Federation (GENOP-DEI) will be tried at the Court of First Instance Friday. PPC demands that the strike that began on 3 March is declared illegal and improper. PPC argues that the company has sustained financial losses, adding that the strikers’ expected benefit is trivial in comparison to the losses.

The trial was scheduled for today but was postponed as the employees’ lawyers had asked to be briefed on the board’s brief.

Before the scheduled trial, incidents broke out when the employees threw eggs against the police because they had not allowed them to enter the court.

As per its announcement, PPC points out that it cannot inform the people about the electric-power cuts per area since they take place on the basis of electric-power demand and the company’s capacity.

The PPC Board called on consumers to be rather cautious with energy spending during demand hours such as 10:00 to 14:00 and 18:30 to 21:30.

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