While the management of the steel group recently announced the temporary closure of some sites, the European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF) and the EWC want to improve social dialogue on this subject. The EMF would have liked to better anticipate the situation within the European social dialogue committee created to that effect in the agreement signed two years ago. However, the EWC and the social dialogue committee established in the agreement were informed and listened to in a timely manner. (Ref. 110581)
Temporary. In 2009, in the middle of the economic crisis, the EMF and ArcelorMittal management signed an agreement on the anticipation of change surprised everyone (see our dispatch No. 090996), mostly because of the company’s commitment to temporary closures of plants only. At the time, some unions were skeptical. Now, Jacques Laplanche, secretary of the group’s European Works Council, asks, “temporary sure, until when?” Last week, the management announced the implementation, by the end o
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