EADS: Airbus’ EWC is denouncing the management’s lack of will to discuss the Power 8 plan

Whereas Airbus' management insisted, during a plenary meeting of the aircraft manufacturer's EWC on March 13, 2007, on the importance it attached to the Power 8 restructuring plan, the members of the EWC denounced, for their part, the management's lack of opening as part of the plan's discussion. (Ref. 070237)
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During the EWC’s meeting, Louis Gallois, the president, “insisted once more on the importance of the power 8 plan [which] lays down the foundations of a new Airbus company, more efficient, entirely incorporated into and supported by a network of partners”. As for Airbus’ EWC’s vice-president, Jean- François Knepper (FO), he underlined that the difficult point concerns the future of the industrial sites for which Airbus wants to find partners. “it is no more and no less than a subcontractization

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