HP-EDS: employees still mobilized to try and bring the two EWCs closer

Transnational mobilization. Udo Verzagt, part of EDS’ EWC, reminded the stakes of this mobilization: “We really have the feeling that they only give us workforce reduction figures, coming from the USA and there is no economic base behind it, these figures don’t make any sense for our business.” Besides, he repeated staff representatives’ wish to “be accepted as partners who discuss the situation and find solutions.”
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Transnational mobilization. Udo Verzagt, part of EDS’ EWC, reminded the stakes of this mobilization: “We really have the feeling that they only give us workforce reduction figures, coming from the USA and there is no economic base behind it, these figures don’t make any sense for our business.” Besides, he repeated staff representatives’ wish to “be accepted as partners who discuss the situation and find solutions.”

EWCs trying to establish bridges. In addition to employees’ mobilization, the qu

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