Keep the Pressure Up at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the EPO
Last night we again saw some circulation of EPO information ("Preparación para una posible huelga de personal prenavideño en la Oficina Europea de Patentes (EPO)").
Some of the information concerns corruption, not just "money issues".
“Stop the erosion of our purchasing power” - a ballot run by the EPO's union (SUEPO) - has just extended the cutoff deadline to 5 days from now instead of tonight ("you can now vote until Sunday, 7 December at 23:59"), so please vote for change. Quoting SUEPO:
No Mandate Without You — Take 30 seconds and make it count — do the poll now.Dear SUEPO members,
Dear Colleagues,Mr Campinos had promised in his Communiqué of 9 April 2020 that with his reform of the salary adjustment procedure “[t]here is no desire to cut staff purchasing power or impose unnecessary savings” but “There is a desire, however, to […] ensure salaries continue to grow, even above eurozone inflation”.
Instead, the review of the six-year application of the procedure shows a severe and permanent loss of purchasing power for EPO staff and pensioners [...]
The EPO financial situation is excellent and no further savings shall be made at the expense of the staff. It is time for the Office and the Administrative Council to take action and fulfil the promise of “reversibility” of the reform.
SUEPO The Hague and Munich have therefore decided to ballot their active members to obtain the mandate to prepare an industrial action plan and to ask which actions they would commit to follow.
This "industrial action plan" may also mean strikes. That will weaken the mandate of the "Mafia" which tries to silence critics. █