Is this vital industry been deliberately pushed to failure?
Despite positive signs of future orders no action is taken for the employment of new workers.
This can only affect negatively the sustainability of the company in a time when Greece needs hot income from foreign orders.
A large part of Greek defence industry at the moment is the programme of modernisation of the
Orion P3-C aircraft four of which EAB ( Hellenic Aerospace Industry) has undertaken to modernise.
Tsakalotos and Tsipras are deep in thought. Why?
Unfortunately work cannot continue without the employment of ninenty specialist workers. This can only go ahead with the signing of the appropriate order by the Economic Minister Mr Tsakalotos.
At times when employment is used by the ruling Syriza Party as a means of political manipulation, it seems quite short sighted to allow the Defence Industry to wither and possibly fall in the hands of foreign capital.
Mr Tsakalotos has not given reasons for the delay nor has he objected to the need for the replacement of workers who have left for various reasons such as pensioning and mass exits.
He has , however, put the signing on ice.
On the other hand, the need for 118 positions in the OTA (Local Government organisations) have just been announced by Government.
Knowing the past record of this government in using employment for political reasons, we can only assume that these positions will be filled by relatives, friends and all sorts of other potentially electorally useful people.
Knowing the past record of this government in using employment for political reasons, we can only assume that these positions will be filled by relatives, friends and all sorts of other potentially electorally useful people.
The above picture is from an Orion P3-C parts info board from the USAN.
For the record, Mr Tsakalotos replaced Giannis Varoufakis as Finance Minister.
