Employees of Hellenic Petroleum (ELPE) are launching a 10-day strike beginning on Friday that could potentially disrupt the smooth supply of the market with fuel.

The employees at ELPE, which controls three of the four oil refineries in Greece, will be on strike through May 16, since seven rounds of negotiations with the ELPE management since the suspension of their previous 10-day labour action in mid-April have failed to result in agreement between the two sides.