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Press
Release Brussels, 26 May 2000 |
On the initiative of the three European public
service unions (Renouveau et Démocratie, SFIE and
TAO/AFI), a Commission staff information and consultation
meeting took place on Friday 26 May on Reform of the
Commission. Issues raised included outsourcing/privatisation, restructuring exercises and nominations, remuneration and pensions, the job descriptions of all staff, and simulations of the effect of staff cuts currently taking place (-5%, -10%, -15%). Staff expressed their opinions and concerns in a frank and constructive discussion. At the end of the meeting, staff urged their union representatives: - that the President of the Commission, Romano Prodi, should be personally involved in the Reform process, given that the Vice-President with responsibility for Reform is pursuing objectives other than the strengthening of the European public service; - that guarantees should be forthcoming that the public service will continue to be multilingual and multicultural in serving European citizens; - that the Commission should give a good example by issuing its own job description before imposing such an appalling bureaucratic exercise on its staff; - that there should be an end to the demagogic propaganda that the Commission perpetrates on its staff by electronic mail; - that permanent dialogue should be established between staff and their representatives; - that nominations for senior officials posts
should be above suspicion, and be proposed in full
transparency and on the basis of objective criteria. |
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Membres du Comité Exécutif: Ianniello Franco, Adurno Giuseppe, Zorbas Gerassimos, Ravagli Alessandra, Uguccioni Bruno, Docherty Michael, Vassila-Souyoul Erica, Bochu Claude, Drevet Jean-François, Napolitano Raffaele, Crespinet Alain, Domingos Dias. |