Next Week Looks Likely to Bring Another Battistelli Crisis at the EPO
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2016-02-27 00:52:56 UTC
- Modified: 2016-02-27 00:52:56 UTC
Summary: Information from “meeting of DG1direct” (if true) serves to reinforce hopes that even Battistelli's high-level 'inferiors' won't support him under pressure
THE EPO "meltdown" matters aren't being properly covered by the media (this will be the subject of another future post), so we try hard to keep our readers abreast of what is known/speculated/happening.
Based on
this new comment (only a day old), there’s more of a mutiny -- if it can be called that -- against Battistelli, in spite (or because) of
the pressure put on managers to pretend to support him. As this anonymous reader, who has no track record in this site, put it:
Information provided by someone who was present at yesterday's meeting of DG1direct, i.e. the association of the examiners' directors:
It was collectively decided at the meeting that with regard to the support letter, DG1 directors should act according to their conscience, i.e. they should not give in to pressure from higher EPO management. In practice it will mean that DG1 directors will not sign the letter (which their principal directors had instructed them to do by Monday).
If true, next week promises to be interesting. Later on
it looks as though there will be a rather major strike, but if Battistelli
et al step down and
the dismissals of staff representatives get suspended (pending external investigation, and perhaps
several more that are sorely needed), then maybe it can be prevented.
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Comments
flintstone
2016-03-01 13:17:00