Two weeks ago 450 journalists working for the big Greek daily newspaper Elefteros Tipos and for radio City were informed that main stockholders of the companies – Theodoros and Yanna Angelopoulos are resigning and will take action for liquidation. Today the journalists made a decision to continue airing their programs on radio City 99.5…

The news program on radio City was interrupted on June 22, when the Angelopoulos’ decided to liquidate the companies in charge of the radio and the newspaper. During the last days the radio was playing only music and news on every hour. Base on latest information, after today’s meeting of the journalists, the regular program of the radio will start on Wednesday at 07:00AM.

Liquidator Haralambos Bilinis, who was hired by the Angelopoulos family to negotiate with the employees in both media, refused to grant their demands. The demands of the employees are 12 salaries compensation and the liquidator said that only the sick, pregnant, etc. employees will receive retribution.

The employees of both companies expressed their protest to the liquidator that the company has still not informed them how they are supposed to deal with the unemployment, which it brought them. The lawyer of the Elefteros Tipos employees, Yannis Karouzos said that despite their knowledge about the financial condition of the company, the stock holders did not inform the employees about the situation, which is a must according to the law.

The chairman of the Workers Confederation in Greece, Yannis Panagopoulos and the chief secretary of the syndicate organization Kostas Poupakis, made a short visit to the offices of the newspaper and complete supported the demands of the journalists. “450 people working in Elefteros Tipos were left unemployed without any warning, during the hardest period in the last 30 years. As the Workers Confederation in Greece, we are fully supporting them and we want the owners of the newspaper and the government to take the necessary measures to relief the employees and to create conditions for keeping their jobs,” said the syndicate organization.