On October, 8, the oil group signed, with three European trade union organizations (FECCIA, FECER and IndustriAll) and the representative French trade union organizations for the group, a new amendment to the EWC agreement. With it, the French Group Council (comité de groupe France) and the EWC are merging into a single structure, and the novelties of the recast directive 2009/38, notably on transnational matters and the link between national and European structures, are introduced. Other changes include the extension of the competence of the Liaison Office and the creation of Strategy Commissions in each branch. (Ref. 120653)
“The management had promised to gather trade union organizations to turn the Group Council and EWC into a single structure representing employees at European level” Total wrote in the press release announcing the amendment signed on October 8 with the FECER and IndustriAll* European trade unions and the group’s French organizations (CFDT, CFE-CGC, CGT and FO). Today, November 7, Total’s French Group Council voted its own dissolution.
Indeed, in the preamble to the amendment, the signing parties
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