The European left unitary group/European Parliament green north left (GUE/NGL, 41 deputies out of 787, mainly representing the communist parties) organized an audition on Airbus and the Power 8 plan, on March 28, 2007, to which about forty French, German, Spanish, British and Belgian overseers and union militants from the company took part. (Ref. 070294)
Invited, Peter Scherrer, secretary general of the European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF), reminded that his federation is opposed to job cuts and the sites’ handover and called for a European industrial policy supporting the aerospace sector, notably in terms of research and development. Another guest, Reiner Hofmann, assistant secretary general of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) went on, also insisting on the need to improve the directive on European Works Councils since “only a
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