Greece orders power workers to end strike

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Source: Financial Times

The Greek government on Saturday ordered striking employees at the state-controlled electricity utility back to work by issuing a “civil mobilisation” decree used to keep public services operating at times of national emergency.

Written mobilisation orders were being served to 19,000 employees of the Public Power Corporation, who face arrest if they continue staging 48-hour rolling strikes launched last week in protest against plans to privatise the company.

The government’s move came after Genop-DEH, the utility’s union, rejected a court decision on Friday ruling the strike was illegal. A union spokesman said on Saturday there would be “further industrial action, regardless of the mobilisation, against this criminal plan to sell off a vital national asset”.

Greece is committed to unbundling and selling the state’s majority stake in PPC under the terms of its second €172bn bailout by the EU and International Monetary Fund, but the reform has been delayed by administrative obstacles.

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[another_liberal]

1. The IMF managers are institutionalized loan sharks . . .

And they use Western governments as their muscle when someone needs his thumbs broken.

[Jack Rabbit]

2. What part of civil disobedience doesn't the Greek government understand?

Maybe if instead of ordering them back to work, they take their side. That might help.

[socialist_n_TN]

3. The government of Greece, like ALL bourgeois governments.......

will NEVER TAKE THE SIDE OF WORKERS AGAINST THE OWNERS. On rare occasions when the owners don't have a big stake in the outcome, they will allow the government to throw a few more crumbs at the workers. But this is NOT a situation like that.

This sell off of public utilities is part of the neo-liberal agenda for Greece that has been instituted by the IMF and the EU. As such the government doesn't give a rat's ass what the workers want or think. They are only concerned with what the capitalists think.

[quadrature]

4. how much do the strikers get paid? ...nt