Rama promises to reopen oil refinery, but Ballsh workers seem skeptic
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ARMO oil workers had promised to march to Tirana if their requests were not fulfilled.
They stayed in Fier, to attend a video-conference with the Prime Minister, who promised that the oil refinery would be up and running very soon, but workers left the meeting unsatisfied.
Rama said that the oil worker status grants them with three months payment with 80% of the salary.
Rama accused the Berisha government of the privatization: “It was not a mistake, but a criminal action”, while the Finance Minister Arben Ahmetaj declared: “When we took this company in 2013, it was bankrupt. Banks had seized it from the moment Rezart Taci had taken loans from them”.
According to the Minister of Energy, Damian Gjiknuri, said that the government cannot be blamed for the current crisis either, although it was the government that blessed the agreement with IRTC, considering it a success: “They haven’t managed it properly, but management is private”, Gjiknuri said.
Oil workers were in a sceptic mood after the meeting, feeling that their main problem, the unpaid salaries, was avoided. “But let’s see if the Prime Minister will keep his word and make the oil refinery operative once again”.
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