In a letter sent to the Sanofi-Aventis group, the general secretary of the European Mine, Chemical and Energy workers' Federation (EMCEF), Reinhard Reibsch, informed that the procedure to ratify the agreement on the creation of a European negotiation body by national federations member of the EMCEF failed, while leaving the door open for another consultation. As an answer, the group's social relations manager criticised a misunderstanding of the draft agreement and says that "for Sanofi-Aventis, social Europe will happen another way". (Ref. 080067)
The draft agreement for the creation of a European negotiation body (see our article No. 071013) after ratification by the members of the French pharmaceutical group’s EWC, was sent to the EMCEF in mid-December so that this European trade union organization could sign it in the name of all its affiliated organizations present in the group.
Interference with collective bargaining. The EMCEF decided to use a procedure first developed by the European Metalworkers Federation (EMF), with the consulta
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