EPSU affiliated unions CGSP, CSC Services Publics and SLPF are on strike in municipal electricity company Interelectra. They are protesting at plans to set up a private sector umbrella holding company which would mean that the public character of the company and the public character of the statute will disappear. The unions are fighting for democratic control by the municipality, public service obligations in public hands and oppose that 75 years of work is thrown away.
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