At Telekom Austria (TA) and Österreichische Post (ÖP), two former public companies, almost 20.000 employees kept the almost sacrosanct civil servant status they had before the privatization. To gently get rid of some of them, the two companies would like to create an external agency financed by the State, to find them a new job or redeploy them. Unions and staff representatives refused outright. (Ref. 080545)
Gerhard Fritz, leader of the union of post and telecommunications employees (GPF), reminded that Alfred Gusenbauer, the social-democrat Austrian Chancellor, announced that he would not allow the creation of an agency to deal with extra civil servants without unions’ consent. Armed with this support and the agreement of the employees of both companies, who held a general assembly at the beginning of June, the GPF announced that it was refusing outright the idea of the creation of an agency under the guardianship of the OÏAG, the financial holding which manages the State’s financial participation.
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