The British trade union of the communications sector, CWU, is taking actions to support a procedure of recognition of the trade union by Orange. CWU bets on a change of attitude of management since the France Telecom group signed, on December 21st 2006, an agreement on basic rights with the world trade-union confederation UNI (see story n°061287). (Ref. 070063)
The trade union of communications employees (CWU) states the text of the agreement on the basic rights in the France Telecom group: “When a trade union is present in one of the group’s companies, the France Telecom group will adopt a neutral position aimed at neither helping nor preventing the trade union from establishing “. This formula which is in favor of status quo and admits the freedom of local management to recognize or not a trade union, is interpreted like “a sign of change of attitud
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