Angry municipal workers clashed violently with riot police outside the main offices of Thessaloniki's city hall on Wednesday morning protesting plans by authorities to transfer the job of maintaining and repairing garbage trucks to a private firm. As seen in the video, a group of angry workers aimed to stop the tender being launched for the job and also tried to stop colleagues attempting to enter the building to go to work. The protesters were pushed back by police. Thessaloniki Mayor Giannis Boutaris has called for a private firm to undertake the repair of 71 municipal garbage trucks, most of which have been lying idle for a year, in exchange for 2.3 million euros. The workers said they object to the plan which they regard as conceding the competencies of the municipality and instead propose that the vehicles be serviced by municipal engineers in exchange for 140,000 euros while the remainder of the budget set aside for the private initiative be used to buy new garbage trucks. (original article in greek on prionokordela)
May 30, 2012
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Angry municipal workers clashed violently with riot police outside the main offices of Thessaloniki's city hall on Wednesday morning protesting plans by authorities to transfer the job of maintaining and repairing garbage trucks to a private firm. As seen in the video, a group of angry workers aimed to stop the tender being launched for the job and also tried to stop colleagues attempting to enter the building to go to work. The protesters were pushed back by police. Thessaloniki Mayor Giannis Boutaris has called for a private firm to undertake the repair of 71 municipal garbage trucks, most of which have been lying idle for a year, in exchange for 2.3 million euros. The workers said they object to the plan which they regard as conceding the competencies of the municipality and instead propose that the vehicles be serviced by municipal engineers in exchange for 140,000 euros while the remainder of the budget set aside for the private initiative be used to buy new garbage trucks. (original article in greek on prionokordela)
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Angry municipal workers clashed violently with riot police outside the main offices of Thessaloniki's city hall on Wednesday morning protesting plans by authorities to transfer the job of maintaining and repairing garbage trucks to a private firm. As seen in the video, a group of angry workers aimed to stop the tender being launched for the job and also tried to stop colleagues attempting to enter the building to go to work. The protesters were pushed back by police. Thessaloniki Mayor Giannis Boutaris has called for a private firm to undertake the repair of 71 municipal garbage trucks, most of which have been lying idle for a year, in exchange for 2.3 million euros. The workers said they object to the plan which they regard as conceding the competencies of the municipality and instead propose that the vehicles be serviced by municipal engineers in exchange for 140,000 euros while the remainder of the budget set aside for the private initiative be used to buy new garbage trucks. (original article in greek on prionokordela)
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