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Physical Demonstrations Against EPO Considered This Month, Work-to-Rule Industrial Action May Continue, and 96% Think António Campinos Violating the Code of Conduct Means the Office Should Release Recordings

EPO opinion poll



EPO opinion poll: Campinos survey



Summary: As shown above, EPO staff is eager to make it loud and clear that the status quo at the EPO isn't acceptable and the president is unfit to run the Office

The Local Staff Committee Munich (LSC Munich) held a meeting and the above outcome, based on a large poll, is quite revealing. That meeting's presentation slides are circulating among staff this week, so we've sanitised metedata and made copies here [1, 2, 3, 4]. Of particular emphasis was the part about staff wanting the EPO to release evidence of António Campinos violating the Code of Conduct of the Office. To quote: "On 18 May, close to 700 colleagues in Munich followed the live transmission of the 2nd General Assembly of 2022 by the Local Staff Committee Munich (LSC Munich). [...] During the meeting, a poll took place: 96% request Mr Campinos to publish the recording of the GCC meeting of 26 April 2022 and 45% are prepared to continue the Work-to-Rule actions and 34% favoured a demonstration in front of the Isar building in June."

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