The International Federation of Chemical, Energy Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM) announced that it bargained to improve the international framework agreement it signed with the German group Freudenberg, in June 2000, adding a clause on the neutrality of the company concerning employees' choice to join a union. (Ref. 080878)
“The ICEM’s Global Framework Agreement with the Freudenberg Group, a German-based rubber, auto accessories, nonwovens, and engineering company, was improved recently to include neutrality on union organizing” the ICEM announced. While the union and the group’s management opened talks to revise the international framework agreement, Freudenberg’s representatives “did accept a clause in the agreement on neutrality with immediate effect.”
Right to create or join a union. The clause reads: “The Freu
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