If the pace of salary erosion over the past six years continues, the already insufficient monthly pension for the staff hired since 2009 in the New Pension Scheme (NPS) will steadily move towards the poverty line.
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Additional Fight: Confronting Employer Interference
PreviousPreviousNextNext Confronting employer interference: trade unionists’ additional fight for democracy in the workplace For 50 years, Union Syndicale has been fighting to give rights to the staff of the European and international institutions: either through the negotiation of memoranda of understanding, framework agreements or directly through the incorporation of provisions…
EPC 50 years Celebrations: a Balanced View
What would be the greatest gift for EPO while celebrating the 50th anniversary of the European Patent Convention ?
European Patent Office sets obstacle course to freedom of communication
EPO staff urge the Administrative Council to put an end to the breaches of the right to freedom of association and freedom of communication at EPO
Trade Union’s challenge in guarding The EU core values
PreviousPreviousNextNext When the Treaty of Rome was signed in 1957 and became the foundation of the European Economic Community, the essential purpose was that of ‘constantly improving the living and working conditions of their peoples’. The original political project to achieve European integration which evolve into the European Union today…
Dubrovnik 2015
USF Congress Dubrovnik 2015USF CONGRESS in Dubrovnik, 1-3 May 2015 : DRAFT AGENDA *Session 1 : 1 May, morning (9:30 – 13:00) Opening, welcome Formalities : adoption of agenda, election of presidency bureau, secretariat, scrutineers, etc. Report of the scrutineers Expulsions New members Address by Mr M. Mršić, Croatian Minister of Labour…
A short history of the USOEB
PreviousPreviousNextNext SUEPO (Staff Union of the European Patent Office) was born in 1979 out of the “Syndicat du Personnel de l’Institut International des Brevets” (SP- IIB) which was founded in 1969, following the creation of the European Patent Office (EPO) in 1977, and the merging of the IIB into the…
Job Insecurity at the European Patent Office
PreviousPreviousNextNext With about 95% permanent staff and “only” around 5% fixed-term employees, the EPO seems from the outside in “Splendid isolation” when compared to most of the other international and European organisations. However, as it is often the case with figures, they do not tell the whole story and from…
Right of strike breached at the EPO
Historical Judgments of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation (ILOAT) on the fundamental right to strike breached by the European Patent Office (EPO)
Future of ILOAT
The whole question of the future of ILOAT is still in a serious crisis! The President of the USF made some comments on the subject.