{"id":5208,"date":"2016-12-14T10:22:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T09:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2023-11-15T10:40:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T09:40:57","slug":"epsu-solidarity-letter-to-epo-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/en\/epsu-solidarity-letter-to-epo-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"EPSU Solidarity letter to EPO staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"g-cols wpb_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column us_custom_432d3f53\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p>Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n<p>EPSU sends a <a href=\"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20161214-OEB-EPSU-Solidarity-letter-to-EPO.pdf\">solidarity letter<\/a> to all the EPO staff,\u00a0 for your demonstration in Munich today to highlight the gross infringement of employee and trade union rights at the European Patent Office.<\/p>\n<p>EPSU has been following developments closely and recently wrote to members of the EPO Administrative Council urging them to address the issue, implement proper procedures and end this intimidation of union representatives. EPSU has also taken up the matter with the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, the Dutch Ministry for Economy and the Ambassadors of the EU Member States in a joint letter with the Dutch Trade Union Confederation FNV dated November 4th, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The issues addressed in that letter are still unresolved: continuous threats to the union representatives by the EPO President Mr Battistelli, violation of workers\u2019 rights, and ignorance of a Dutch court ruling. The dismissal of a SUEPO representative in The Hague last month is further evidence to us that management is determined to destroy the union. This kind of behaviour is unacceptable for any administration on the territory of a European Union Member State. Many more <a href=\"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/en\/?s=epo&amp;lang=en\">EPO<\/a> conflicts remain unsolved and the situation has degenerated to such an extent that the Dutch national Parliament decided to debate the scandals at the EPO, an action unheard of for any international organisation in Europe. We hope that your demonstration today will move the EPO Administrative Council to act and at the very least to respond to the ruling by the International Labour Office\u2019s Administrative Tribunal that the EPO needs to appoint a properly constituted Appeals Committee, including a member of the Central Representation Committee, to deal with staff issues.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_large\"><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_medium with_line width_50 thick_3 style_solid color_primary align_center\"><div class=\"w-separator-h\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover here the recent EPSU Solidarity letter to all of the European Patent Office (EPO) staff concerning the different abuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"dossier-special":[],"class_list":["post-5208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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