Hewlett Packard: employee representatives vote the termination of the anticipation agreement establishing the EWC

CFE-CGC, the French union organization, announced in a press release published on July 26 that 95 percent of the EWC members of the computing group had decided to terminate the agreement regulating the establishment and operations of HP’s EWC, signed in 1996.  Still according to the union representing executives, this “self-termination” “puts an end to a 16-year-old agreement which HP’s European management has been applying in an erroneous and restrictive manner in recent year, particularly when Mark Hurd became CEO.  The last meetings on the impact of the global restructuring on the EMEA region were enlightening in this respect with botched/incomplete presentations and the management denying the EWC assistance by an expert of its choosing.”  The same press release announces that, “In addition to this decision, EWC representatives also decided to file a complaint [editor’s note: in Belgium as Belgian law covers this agreement] to get proper consultation on the current global restructuring.”