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Paphos bus drivers accept deal, returning to work Monday (Updated) Cyprus

Paphos bus drivers accept deal, returning to work Monday (Updated)

January 20th, 20194118 Paphos bus company Osypa employees on Sunday voted to accept a deal agreed between the transport ministry and the company that would see them return to work on Monday. Christos Evangelou, a representative of the drivers said at the end of the meeting they had decided to suspend their long-running strike over pay. According to...
Ministry looking to hire buses to end Paphos transport crisis Cyprus

Ministry looking to hire buses to end Paphos transport crisis

January 15th, 20194299 The vast majority of striking bus drivers at the Paphos bus company (Osypa) have accepted Transport Minister Vasiliki Anastasiadou’s mediation proposal which saw the ministry on Tuesday seek to hire buses to operate in Paphos from Thursday to February 10. After striking for seven days over the non-payment of December wages, Osypa...
No end in sight to Paphos bus strike Cyprus

No end in sight to Paphos bus strike

January 11th, 20193778 Drivers of the Paphos public transport company (Osypa) completed their third day of strike measures on Friday, with the strike having no end in sight as rivalling sides continue to lay fault elsewhere. While the bus company asks for money from the ministry, the ministry claims it is the company which owes money to the government...
Thousands without transport as Paphos bus strike continues Cyprus

Thousands without transport as Paphos bus strike continues

January 10th, 20193653 The Paphos bus strike entered a second day on Thursday as drivers for bus company Osypa continued their protest over not having received their December salaries. Spokesman for the drivers Christos Evangelou said they would continue the work stoppages if their salaries are not paid on time every month. He said he regretted that no...
Paphos bus drivers to strike again on Wednesday Cyprus

Paphos bus drivers to strike again on Wednesday

January 8th, 20192245 Paphos bus drivers announced yet another strike for Wednesday, bus company Osypa said on Tuesday. The reason, the drivers said, was the non-payment of wages for December. “We have been waiting until this time for the competent ministry to make the payments without any results so far," spokesman for the bus drivers Christos...
Paphos bus drivers to go back to work Cyprus

Paphos bus drivers to go back to work

December 11th, 20181675 Paphos public bus (Osypa) drivers will go back to work on Wednesday, they decided at a meeting on Tuesday afternoon shortly after Transport Minister Vassiliki Anastasiadou urged them to do so and claim what they are owed from their employer, not the government. After the meeting ended at 5pm, Osypa spokesman Christos Evangelou said...
Paphos bus drivers take pay protest to Nicosia   Cyprus

Paphos bus drivers take pay protest to Nicosia  

December 11th, 20182234 By Evie Andreou Drivers from the Paphos public bus company, Osypa, gathered on Tuesday morning outside the Presidential Place to protest over the fact that they had not received any assurances they would receive their December and 13th salaries. The protest follows a dispute between Osypa and the transport ministry over the...
Striking Paphos bus drivers threaten protest at palace if no progress by Monday Cyprus

Striking Paphos bus drivers threaten protest at palace if no progress by Monday

December 9th, 20182637 Paphos bus drivers warned on Sunday that if there were no developments in resolving their wages issues, they would protest outside the presidential palace in their vehicles. The on-again-off-again strike by bus company Osypa’s drivers, continued on Sunday and no progress has been made in resolving the financial dispute between the...
Paphos again without buses on Friday Cyprus

Paphos again without buses on Friday

December 7th, 20183183 By Lizzy Ioannidou Renewed indefinite strike measures were launched on Friday by Paphos public transport company (Osypa) employees, after the company’s failure to pay November salaries, despite government promises on Tuesday that a solution would be found this week. Once again, thousands of students, pensioners, workers and...
Paphos bus drivers to resume strike on Friday Cyprus

Paphos bus drivers to resume strike on Friday

December 6th, 20183206 Paphos bus drivers will resume strike action on Friday at 6am, it was announced on Thursday. According to state radio a meeting of bus company Osypa with the transport ministry on Wednesday failed to reach a deal in the ongoing impasse, and the employees including 120 drivers have still not been paid their salary for November. The...
Bus drivers in Paphos and Limassol call off strike (updated) Cyprus

Bus drivers in Paphos and Limassol call off strike (updated)

December 4th, 20183519 Public transport is set to return to normal on Wednesday after Paphos bus company Osypa employees agreed on Tuesday to join those from Limassol in calling off strike measures after receiving government promises that a solution to the company’s problems will be found within the next two days. As a sign of good will, the around 120...
Thousands without public transport in Limassol and Paphos (Update 1) Cyprus

Thousands without public transport in Limassol and Paphos (Update 1)

December 3rd, 20183391 Thousands of public transport users, mainly student, were without buses on Monday as wrangling continued behind the scenes between transport officials and bus companies. Paphos bus company Osypa stopped working at 6am, threatening an indefinite work stoppage. Around 120 bus drivers, technicians and secretarial staff went on...
Paphos, Limassol bus drivers to strike on Monday (updated) Cyprus

Paphos, Limassol bus drivers to strike on Monday (updated)

December 2nd, 20184282 Bus drivers in Paphos and Limassol will proceed with a strike from 6am on Monday, while the transport ministry said on Sunday payments will be made by it on Monday to bus companies in other areas so that employees could be paid. Around 5,000 school children and 3,500 other bus passengers are expected to be affected by the strike in...
Paphos bus strike ends Cyprus

Paphos bus strike ends

May 10th, 20183710 The Paphos bus company (Osypa) called off a strike and resumed normal service on Thursday evening after reaching a deal with the government. The transport ministry said agreement had been reached with the company, which receives government funding. The deal provided for immediate payment of bus drivers’ wages for April. Some...
New Paphos bus strike from Wednesday, salaries not paid yet Cyprus

New Paphos bus strike from Wednesday, salaries not paid yet

May 8th, 20186763 Bus company Osypa in Paphos will begin an indefinite strike on Wednesday, the second one this month, as they have yet to be paid their wages for April, they said on Tuesday. The strike is expected to affect 18,000 passengers of which 6,000 are students. A host of tourists, pensioners and the wider general public will also be...
Thousands affected by Paphos bus strike after May Day holiday (Update 2) Cyprus

Thousands affected by Paphos bus strike after May Day holiday (Update 2)

May 2nd, 20185777 Thousands of people were affected on Wednesday after the Paphos Transport Organisation (Osypa) bus company called an indefinite strike in protest over not being paid for April. The company’s 117 vehicles remained stationary, with the 237 drivers and other staff warning that they would not return to work unless they received their...
Paphos bus strike called off (updated) Cyprus

Paphos bus strike called off (updated)

December 5th, 20175369 Paphos buses will start running normally on Wednesday after the indefinite strike the company’s drivers started on Tuesday over unpaid salaries ended later in the day when the company reached an agreement with the transport ministry. The indefinite strike by Osypa began at 6am on Tuesday after Monday’s talks between the transport...
Paphos bus drivers to begin indefinite strike from Tuesday Cyprus

Paphos bus drivers to begin indefinite strike from Tuesday

December 4th, 20174584 Paphos bus drivers will start an indefinite strike on Tuesday in protest over delays in receiving their salaries, a frequent occurrence since the economic crash, which led to cuts in government subsidies to overpaid transport companies. The decision was made on Monday after negotiations between the company, Osypa, and the transport...
Transport Ministry chides bus company after strike action (Updated) Cyprus

Transport Ministry chides bus company after strike action (Updated)

November 3rd, 20174055 Transport Minister Marios Demetriades said on Friday that there can be no solutions through blackmailing strikes and called for patience so that his ministry and Paphos’ bus company Osypa, can sort out the differences that have led to employees being left unpaid for more than a month. Around 6,000 pupils in Paphos district had to...
Ministry not responsible that bus company salaries not paid Cyprus

Ministry not responsible that bus company salaries not paid

November 1st, 20171976 By Evie Andreou The transport ministry said on Wednesday it bore no responsibility for the non-payment of salaries for staff at the Paphos bus company Osypa, who went on a two-hour strike over the government’s decision to withhold the state’s subsidy to the company to compensate for mutually-acknowledged earlier...
Paphos buses to be hit by strike on Wednesday Cyprus

Paphos buses to be hit by strike on Wednesday

October 31st, 20173443 Employees of the Paphos bus company Osypa on Tuesday announced a two-hour warning strike for Wednesday over the government’s decision to withhold the state’s contribution to the company to compensate for mutually-acknowledged earlier overpayments. The company’s 105 buses will remain parked from 12:30 to 2:30pm as drivers,...
Paphos bus strike postponed Cyprus

Paphos bus strike postponed

December 14th, 20161744 Paphos bus company Osypa ended strike measures on Wednesday and gave the transport ministry until January 10 to meet the company’s demands regarding the modernisation of the fleet. Officials from the Paphos bus company met on Wednesday with Transport Minister Marios Demetriades in an effort to solve the town’s bus strike, which...
Solution sought in Paphos bus strike Cyprus

Solution sought in Paphos bus strike

December 14th, 20161718 Officials from the Paphos bus company Osypa will meet transport minister Marios Demetriades today in an effort to solve the town’s bus strike that has been ongoing since Monday. Residents and students who use the 300 or so routes are complaining over the strike which has seen more than 100 buses parked up in protest over what Osypa...
Call for bus route to Paphos old town Cyprus

Call for bus route to Paphos old town

May 5th, 20155777 By Bejay Browne A recently formed association which aims to attract people to the old town of Paphos is accusing the local bus company of ripping off customers by forcing them to purchase two tickets for what they say should be a simple ride into the area. The bus company, OSYPA, rejected the accusation. Kyriacos Kyriacou, head...
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