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EUROKINISSI / ANTONIS NIKOLOPOULOS
A capital increase of 100 million euros is underway, with the participation of Hellenic Holdings and Property Company. SYRIZA’s reaction.
Deal… contraction στα Greek mail, with the government launching voluntary exit plan around 2,000 employeesY pay cuts, with the aim of changing the financial direction of the company downward.
At the same time, the government is carrying out a state intervention, with capital increase of the company against 100 million euro. As highlighted, the Hellenic Holdings and Property Company (EESYP) will participate in AMK. In any case, the contraction appears to be the price for state aid of 100 million euros, while it remains unknown next step for the company, since the option of long-term privatization is not ruled out.
According to the government, the main axes of the plan, presented to the cabinet by the Ministers of Finance and Digital Governance, Chr. Staikoura and Mr. Pierrakaki – are the following:
- “The rationalization of salary costs, with emphasis on the implementation of a plan for the voluntary departure of employees”
- “The digital transformation of the company, with updating of systems, automation of classification centers and provision of better and more digital services to citizens”
- “The restructuring of the organizational structure of the company for the fulfillment of the obligations of the universal service, in combination with changes in the postal service model”
- “The development of a new procurement policy and the cultivation of a new corporate culture, by improving the skills of the company’s human resources”
SYRIZA: No to store closings and labor deregulation
For one “hard lesson” to neoliberals»What is the state intervention, speaks the head of the Digital Governance of SYRIZA-PS, Marios katsis, referring to the government’s plan for EL.TA.
It also emphasizes that SYRIZA will not tolerate “circumvention of labor rights of workers, with layoffs and store closures, ”while calling on the government to reach an agreement with the workers on the terms of a courageous voluntary departure.
Finally, it sends the message that the future of ELTA “is not its devaluation, nor its delivery to private interests».
The statement of M. Katsis
Today, with a joint announcement, the co-responsible ministers, gentlemen. Pierrakakis and Staikouras presented the interventions for the restructuring of ELTA.
ELTA needed immediate interventions and solutions that we had signaled in time even before the outbreak of the pandemic. Subsequently, the government recognized that it must pay the compensation for universal service first legislated by the SYRIZA government, as well as the injection of liquidity through the repayment of debts of public bodies to ELTA, initially paying € 90 million for the years 2013 2018 and collecting € 45 million of debts respectively. This oligarchy cost ELTA dearly to those who could not benefit from the increased demand for packages and e-commerce during the pandemic, as well as private competitors.
As an official opposition, we consider that the announced financial intervention of the State in the consolidation of ELTA with the compensation of universal service and the increase of social capital is a hard lesson for neoliberals who see that ideology “regulates everything by the invisible hand of market”. After all, the European Commission has also eased restrictions on state aid. We have serious reservations about the details of the implementation and especially about the ELTA development plan the next day.
For us, the priority is the universal service of citizens in every part of the Greek territory with reliable services but also the viability of the company, under public control, in a sector with great development prospects, mainly in messaging. It is a red line that this plan should not be accompanied by the closure of ELTA branches in the territory and the maintenance of the network presence even in the most remote parts of Greece, providing reliable services at affordable prices. We will not tolerate the abuse of workers’ labor rights, with layoffs and closing of branches as in the Banks, the hiring of new low-paid and flexible employees outside of ASEP as in the new PPC, while at the same time the “transferable goldenboys “They receive provocative salaries. Finally, we call on the government to reach an agreement with ELTA employees on the terms of a courageous voluntary departure.
The future of ELTA is not its discredit or its delivery to private interests. It is necessary to implement a sustainable model for the development and use of the network, always under public control, that serves all citizens, even where the market is not profitable, with respect for labor rights.
