“The only trade union body that actually has today to present trade union action and some relative strike success is PAME. No one else” said the Minister of Labor and Social Security Adonis Georgiadis regarding the success of today’s strike actions against the bill.

The minister disputed the reports made by KKE MP Nikos (Pakos) Exarchos of Ioannina that “the largest water bottling plant not of Ioannina but of all of Europe, with well-paid jobs and exemplary employment – as the prime minister told us during the recent visit that he had done there – a few months later his workers issued a unanimous statement demanding better wages, a collective agreement and never Sunday work, and today all the workers in the factory went on strike”

In particular, Mr. Georgiadis repeated that “the ADEDY strike was followed by only 100 workers out of a total of 350,000 workers, in OIELE 30 teachers have gone on strike out of 9,000 workers”. He stated that “after the PAME announcement, I myself contacted the Food and Beverage Association of Greece to find out if the factories were operating throughout the territory. Everything worked fine. Only the Coca Cola, 3E factory had a relative success in the strike” Regarding the natural water factories of Ioannina mentioned by the KKE MP, Mr. Georgiadis said that “at the VIKO factory, you went on 6 to 8 in the morning and closed the entrance and then left and the factory operated normally. And in the factory of Mr. Chitos “ZAGORI” what has happened is that PAME has created a union with 100 members this June. When you say 100% success, you mean your 100 members, the rest worked. The factory you say had a 10% drop in production today. That was your success, that’s what we’re talking about. If you think that the industrialists are trembling because of the strike you did today, you are wrong.”

The parliamentary representative of the KKE, Thanasis Pafilis, replied to the minister that “with what you say, we will make a fool of you, because you are using the evidence that DAP used in the Universities to prove that it was the first force, but in the end, Panspuadasti was the first and you don’t swallow it” . Mr. Pafilis said that “you talk to the employers because unfortunately these are your ideological bosses” and added “the MIMIKOS company participated in the strike 100%, Kelaiditis participated 100%.” “Zagori” 100%”, as well as many other food companies where the average participation was over 80% and I will report all the figures tomorrow in my speech” and challenged Mr. Georgiadis “to state if he can argue that no factories were closed.”