Turkish Cypriot electricity workers’ trade union El-Sen went on strike on Monday after a worker suffered serious injuries following an explosion at a transformer station last week, with the striking workers demanding better physical protection for those working on electricity infrastructure, and demanding answers over five years’ worth of missing financial statements from Turkish Cypriot […]
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Turkish Cypriot electricity workers’ trade union El-Sen went on strike on Monday after a worker suffered serious injuries following an explosion at a transformer station last week, with the striking workers demanding better physical protection for those working on electricity infrastructure, and demanding answers over five years’ worth of missing financial statements from Turkish Cypriot electricity authority Kib-Tek.
The workers gathered outside Kib-Tek’s headquarters in Nicosia, a stone’s throw from the transformer station, and in the morning barricaded the building’s entrance, refusing to…
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