Bonum Certa Men Certa

Vote for EPO Strike This Tuesday in Order to Replace EPO Management

Stanisław Lentz painting Strike, a famous painting by Stanisław Lentz



Summary: In order to dethrone the tyranny created and protected (by expansion of an inner circle) after Battistelli had been undemocratically put in place, vote this Tuesday for a strike, enjoy an extra day (or more) off, and watch the Administrative Council (AC) explaining to Battistelli that he needs to leave (not just a 'house ban')

IRRATIONAL people probably still think that the Office will survive the latest storm. Well, it will, but not with Battistelli. He will have to go soon. The EPO's Twitter account (i.e. the PR team) is even working on a Saturday now, propping up puff pieces it managed to get The Local to publish (twice even!). Working on a Saturday isn't normal. It is very rare (we saw that only once before, even on new year's day when hogwash was desperately needed). This is telling. They are probably hoping to save the king, as the famous saying goes. They disseminate the propaganda, even with awkward videos of Battistelli lurching on a pew in a studio with many cameras, reading a script with dubious claims (some of them outright lies). How much more pathetic can it get for Battistelli? They scheduled this propaganda probably to coincide with a TV program they are desperate to bury and distract journalists from.



"How much more pathetic can it get for Battistelli?"The other day we received information from a reader, noting that "the call for strike is a genuine call the strike, by genuine staff." There is no doubt about it and when we wrote about it last month we didn't see documents which later showed us that non-vote would be misleadingly presented by Battistelli and his circle/crew as lack of interest (we covered this days ago). Our source further reinforces this belief, stressing that if the ballot turnout is poor on March 8th, Battistelli "will argue that he has the majority of staff behind him. This will influence the AC and might jeopardise their plans to sack him in the meeting on 16/17 March."

"So please go and vote for a strike, and more importantly tell others to do the same."Yes, this was realised a while back when we became aware, based on numerous documents, that Battistelli was planning to have a sort of Crimean 'election'/'referendum'. If people come by the thousands to vote for a strike, there's no opportunity for retribution, even if the process somehow tracked people's votes. So please go and vote for a strike, and more importantly tell others to do the same. It's strength in numbers and the more people vote in favour, the better protected colleagues (who do the same) will be. This is an opportunity to show to the AC not only that people are fed up with Battistelli -- demonstrably a terrible leader -- but are also prepared and willing to take the risk (with keyloggers of all) of voting for a strike. With proven support for a strike from EPO staff (effectively a vote of zero confidence in the management), delegates need not fear voting against Battistelli, who terrified them to make an example, at the next meeting (10 days from now).

"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it."

--Andrew Carnegie

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