During a meeting organized at the end of September at the initiative of the European Federation of Food, Agriculture, and Tourism trade unions (EFFAT), Unilever's national and European trade union representatives denounced the lack of information and consultation of workers on the suppression of 20.000 jobs in the world and called for European mobilization this coming December. (Ref. 070830)
At the end of September, representatives from the EFFAT and EMCEF (chemistry, energy and mining) Secretariats gathered in the Netherlands (see our article No.070792) with organizations from Germany, the Netherlands, France, Great Britain, Spain, Italy and Poland as well as with representatives from Unilever’s European works council in order to come up with a “joint response” to the announcement by Unilever last August that it is shedding some 20,000 jobs worldwide, (10,000 to 12,000 of them in Europe).
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