HP-EDS: the trade union coordination calls for a European Action Day

The union representatives of the two groups HP and EDS as well as the members of the EWCs of the two firms met again in Brussels, on October 15, to discuss the 9,330 lay offs announced in the wake of the take-over of EDS by HP. (Ref. 080806)
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Following the meeting organized on September 9, the European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF) and the UNI Europa trade union federation (see our dispatch No. 080722) and the meeting of the two EWCs on September 25 (see our dispatch No. 080671), the two European trade union federations have once again invited union representatives and EWC members to meet on the actions to take.

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