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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9620

12 March 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/social
Unilever restructuring plan illustrates need to revise European work committees directive

Strasbourg, 11/03/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 11 March, the GUE/NGL group at the EP took note of the victims of the Unilever restructuring plan and asked for the 1994 directive on European work committees to be revised. Declaring a profit of €4bn for 2007, the Anglo-Dutch food group is getting rid of 12,000 jobs and closing 50-60 sites in Europe.

After meeting a union delegation from the Unilever group, the GUE/NGL and parliamentarians from other EP groups took the following...

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