Shame on the Administrative Tribunal of ILO for Helping Team Battistelli Abuse EPO Staff
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2017-06-01 07:35:48 UTC
Modified: 2017-06-02 18:11:39 UTC
Summary: A look at the rather insidious connection between ILO and the EPO, which ILO is supposed to regulate in the labour rights sense
TECHRIGHTS has written a series of posts bemoaning the state of ILO, based on people who saw the rot from the inside. Not too long ago, adding insult to injury, SUEPO wrote about it too (as covered at the end of last month).
"Breaking news," a reader of ours called it, are the "Judgements of [the] 123rd session, 2nd part - Admin. Tribunal's President publicly praises the EPO (only)!"
We saw this before, so we are not too sure it can be considered news. The interpretation, however, is new. "Please listen yourself," said this reader, adding the following more detailed explanation:
Admin. Tribunal ILO notes "with satisfaction" that the EPO has taken "some specific measures" to implement the Tribunal's orders. No other organisation was praised like this!
The President of the Tribunal also drew the attention to "a" recent judgement of the Supreme Court of The Netherlands that "upheld the integrity" of the EPO's course of justice including the Tribunal's role in it.
From the President's public praise for the EPO - and only for the EPO! - one can at least conclude that the Tribunal's cooperation with the EPO seems to be unusually close, i.e. closer than with other organisations.
This is something which we repeatedly covered last month and intend to delve deeper into. Anyone who has material about the ILO(AT) going 'soft' on the EPO is encouraged to get in contact with us because this sort of soft 'collusion' helps facilitate the immunity granted and maintained by the Dutch government. It often seems like EPO management and ILO management just guard each others' jobs rather than guard justice itself (or the jobs of ordinary EPO workers). ⬆
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