Less than three weeks after lodging a complaint for bribery against the GNBZ (the young trade union of the postal sector's new companies), (see our dispatch No. 80230), the services' union Ver.di is getting ready to lodge another complaint, this time against Aldi, the German giant in discount supplier and against a rival union organization, the AUB. (Ref. 080286)
“We suspect Aldi of having financed for years the pseudo-union AUB to limit our influence on the company. Our legal service is currently preparing a complaint”, a Ver.di spokesman told Planet Labor. According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung daily (April 7), Aldi would have recognized paying for several years €120.000 a year to an AUB employee in charge of training Aldi’s works councils’ members. We acted “in the most legal manner”, a spokesman from the Aldi Einkauf GmbH Company in Essen told the new
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