Workers at the site of the new University of Cyprus library, which was planned to open on 22 November, started a solidarity strike. The employees of Ten Group Services, which offered support services to J&P Overseas, working at the construction site of the building walked out to demonstrate their solidarity with unpaid workers at J&P Overseas which went into liquidation in October 2018. They joined around 200 other employees of Ten Group Services who went on an indefinite strike on 31 October. Industrial observers had already warned in 2015 that J&P was poorly managed and that a collapse was to be expected.
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