Striking truck owners and Infrastructure, Transport and Networks Minister Dimitris Reppas were in talks for some four hours on Thursday in a last-ditch effort to reach a compromise that would defuse the tension and peacefully end a strike that has starved Greek markets of fuel.
After the conclusion of Thursday’s meeting, a representative of the truck owners, including tanker trucks that transport fuels, said only that the sector’s federations were currently meeting and would soon announce what stance they intend to take.
Among truck owners demands to end their strike action was that the minister promise to delay any vote on a draft bill that seeks to open up their currently closed profession until the end of August. This demand had been provisionally agreed to on Wednesday by ministry general secretary Haris Tsiokas.
In the meantime, prefectures were beginning to issue the orders requisitioning individual truck owners’ services and their vehicles so that the market might be supplied with fuel and resume its operation.
(source: ana-mpa)
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