The handle aircraft company “Goldair Handling” in Greece makes hundreds of dismissals of workers.

The dismissals that are in progress are:

From the airport of Rhodes, 63 dismissals out of the 69 workers

From Corfu airport, 11 dismissals out of the 15 workers

From the airport of Thessalonica, 64 dismissals out of the 70 workers

From Athens airport, 160 dismissals out of the 400 workers

The Goldair Handling utilizes the law that the social democratic government of PASOK voted a few months ago and provides 50% reduction in the amount of redundancies to the workers who have dismissed.

The Goldair Handling claims that the dismissals are taking place because of the merger of the private air companies “Aegean Airlines” and “Olympic Air”, since the Goldair Handling cooperates with Aegean Airlines.

PAME struggles against the dismissals in Goldair Handling. Against the policy that wants to transform transportation means into a commercial product.

The merger of the Aegean Airlines with Olympic Air leads to the creation of a private air company in the place of the old state one. This will have negative consequences for our people, like the lack of service for the people who live in remote areas, the increase of the tickets’ price, the security, the frequency and quality of flights.

PAME calls upon the people to struggle for another policy of development that all the strategic sectors of the economy will be exclusively state-owned in our country (Energy, Telecommunications, Transport etc.).

We struggle for modern and exclusively public transportation means (air, land and sea) that will ensure qualitative, cheap and safe air transportation and will employ workers with full-time and stable forms of employment.