After a summit meeting and demonstrations of employees of the Austrian post, the management of the company accepted to lower the 9.000 job cuts and 1.000 office closings planned by 2015. In spite of the Ministers' promises, the Postal and Telegraph Workers' Union (GPF) is waiting for the latest figured plan to be presented by the Post AG's supervisory board on December 11, to permanently stop threatening to strike during the Christmas period. (Ref. 080920)
In order to defuse the violent controversy which arose when the Post AG declared plans for staffing cuts and agency closings last week (see our dispatch No. 080892), Werner Feymann, social-democrat Transport Minister, and his conservative colleague, Wilhem Molterer, Finance Minister, met, on November 19, 2008 in Vienna, with Anton Wais, CEO of the Post AG, two GPF representatives and several representatives from Austrian local authorities (cities and Lander). After this round table, Mr. Faymann
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