Thomson: European work’s council complains about absence of information-consultation during the closing of two Technicolor sites

Whereas the French group Thomson announced, on January 17th 2007, the closing of the sites of manufacturing DVDs in Luxembourg and England, in order to transfer the production in Poland, in the only European unit which will remain in activity, the EWC points out the absence of information and consultation on this issue . (Ref. 070098)
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“Thomson announces the closing of the two Technicolor sites, without having informed and consulted the European Work’s council, denounces the CFDT federation of metalworkers (FGMM-CFDT), violating European workers’ rights to information and consultation. The FGMM-CFDT estimates that, furthermore, the group “did not conduct the necessary social preliminary dialogue in Luxembourg and the United Kingdom”.

Preliminary information-consultation. The trade union says that “all the workers’ representati

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