In a letter addressed on November 8th 2006 to Arcelor-Mittal President Lakshmi Mittal, the secretary-general of the EMF Peter Scherrer presented the position of his federation concerning the merger and demanded a negotiation to integrate the two existing EWCs, a guarantee of workers' participation in the board of directors, a reinforcement of the social dialogue committee and the creation of a world-wide works council. (Ref.061205)
The European Metalworkers’ Federation would like the new group to acquire “an autonomous and performing social dialogue system”. It also wants to see “an extension of social dialogue at the world, European and national levels”. Finally, the EMF asks the group to guarantee “freedom of association” and recognize the right to collective negotiation on all the sites.
Workers’ participation in board of directors. Arcelor has reserved three seats of the board of directors to workers’ representatives.
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