{"id":7019,"date":"2016-02-24T15:53:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T14:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/?p=7019"},"modified":"2024-09-10T16:01:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T15:01:22","slug":"disastrous-situation-at-epo-reply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/en\/disastrous-situation-at-epo-reply\/","title":{"rendered":"Disastrous situation at EPO \u2013 Reply"},"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\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p>Dear Munich Colleagues of the EPO,<\/p>\n<p>You addressed Union Syndicale F\u00e9d\u00e9rale (USF) in a letter (24.01.2016). Attached to the letter was a letter to the German Minister of Justice, Mr Maas. Your letter and the attachment confirm the disastrous situation at the European Patent Office (EPO), where even fundamental trade union rights are obviously violated. Redress, be it through action of the Member States of the EPO or through judicial means, does not seem to be available at the EPO. The current crisis at the EPO outsizes any crisis ever experienced at the EPO, even all known conflicts in the European international Public Service.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/unionsyndicale.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20160224-Divers-Lettre-USF-Patentprufer-Munich-Answer-avec-lien-Bernd-to-Ryder-signee.pdf\">Read the complete letter here !<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\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>USF stays side by side with SUEPO-The Hague and SUEPO-Berlin and all EPO colleagues in this exceptionally difficult situation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,69,68],"tags":[],"dossier-special":[],"class_list":["post-7019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-special-report","category-working-conditions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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