{"id":5253,"date":"2017-02-03T09:40:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T08:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/?p=5253"},"modified":"2023-11-21T12:02:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T11:02:50","slug":"battistelli-tries-to-break-epo-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/en\/battistelli-tries-to-break-epo-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Battistelli tries to break EPO union !"},"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>Yet more rewriting of rules, as majority of patent attorneys say it\u2019s time to resign.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the European Patent Office has embarked on yet another effort to undermine his organization\u2019s staff union.<\/p>\n<p>In confidential documents seen by\u00a0<em>The Register<\/em>, the president\u2019s team has drafted changes to the organization\u2019s articles that would effectively give him veto power over the election of union representatives, as well as limit what those representatives could do.<\/p>\n<p>Among the changes proposed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The current union leaders \u2013 who Battistelli has fired or placed on leave despite a formal rebuke from the European Patent Office\u2019s (<a href=\"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/en\/?s=epo&amp;lang=en\">EPO<\/a>\u2018s) Administrative Council \u2013 would be unable to stand for re-election.<\/li>\n<li>The union would lose its right to choose two of the five members of the EPO\u2019s \u201csupervisory committee,\u201d with those members chosen instead by an ill-defined process that EPO management is likely to dominate.<\/li>\n<li>The supervisory committee would be granted new powers, including the ability to \u201ctake any measures as it sees fit, including to strike out from the election any list or candidate in case of evidence or attempts of fragmenting the electoral body, or of unduly influencing in any way the result of the election.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Only the chair of the Central Staff Committee would be excused from official duties \u2013 previously all members of the committees were excused.<\/li>\n<li>Union meetings would be limited to a certain number per year and will not be allowed to grow beyond a certain size.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read here the rest of the article \u201cBattistelli tries to break EPO union !\u201d on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2017\/01\/31\/battistelli_tries_again_to_break_epo_union\/\">Register<\/a>.<\/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>The president of the European Patent Office has embarked on yet another effort to undermine his organization\u2019s staff union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,68],"tags":[],"dossier-special":[],"class_list":["post-5253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-working-conditions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Battistelli tries to break EPO union !<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Battistelli tries to break EPO union ! 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