Cyprus lorry strike due to EU rules

jp · 13-12-2004, 05:47 PM

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Several thousand Cypriot truck drivers went on indefinite strike Monday, blockading the island's two main sea ports in Limassol and Larnaca in a row over EU rules governing their profession.
Truckers are seeking amendments to the rules which they say the government had promised them during a previous week-long crippling strike in October 2003, estimated to have cost the Cyprus economy about 200 million dollars.

The article linked below shows how this has come about

http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/041213150635.2psht4zo

You just ask yourself why the EU has to get involved in things which have been sorted out within peoples own countries to their evident satisfaction

(This is a rhetorical question!!)

Intbel · 13-12-2004, 11:40 PM

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Originally Posted by jp

You just ask yourself why the EU has to get involved in things which have been sorted out within peoples own countries to their evident satisfaction.

The main thrust of their argument: "Truck drivers are opposed to EU rules in which "A" licences are no longer issued to individual trucks but companies, preventing them being sold on after owners retire for a fee that can reach up to 120,000 dollars with the vehicle. "

I support the drivers. After running a business for many years they should be allowed to sell their trucks, fully licensed as a going concern. ie. as a business. I do think though, that to be permitted to do this, they should have operated their business for a minimum period of time to prevent the ad hoc buying and selling which would inflate prices to such a degree that only companies would be able to afford to purchase them.

Similarly taxi owner-drivers.

Agreed it has sfa to do with the E.U. folks.

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