September 2005:
We have to restart saying
NO to Job Cuts –NO to lays off
HPI is restarting the activity, after summer’s holidays,
announcing 14.500 worldwide job cuts (last July announcement)
HP Corporate will cascade those cutting to
Emea and countries level,
to Italy as well in spite of all assurances
done by Italian management to employees.
Worker’s Councils has been already engaged
as follow:
1) EWC (European
Work Council) representatives will have an extraordinary meeting on September 7th,
8th, 9th at Brussels site where the EMEA management
will present the implementation on new strategies, the new organizational model
and the impact for EMEA/countries of the announcement
2) Next
September 26th a meeting among Work Council/Trade Unions, HPI
management and their representatives, to discuss on renewal of Internal
National Agreement and the new organizational model
The
Italian Work Council had already declared his opposition to this kind of
action. Our position is: HP needs to reinvest on research, education,
increasing professional figures, and in business innovations.
Local Work Council wants to have a really
and serious discussion to recognize to employees their rights to employment and
to avoid that cost control will be done reducing the number of people.
Before reducing people, HP should consider
the saving into different areas: wasting money, reviewing processes.
We call all workers to work close with Work
Council to discuss the daily evolution and decide together the necessary
actions to be taken to upfront the actual situation.
ITALIAN WORK COUNCIL
HPI TRADE UNIONS REPRESENTATIVES
8 Settembre 2005
