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On the 29^th and 30^th of January, PCS members at EDS and HP will join their colleagues from across Europe, staging an action and holding local workplace meetings to support protests across Europe against HP and EDS plans to shed jobs and freeze wages and benefits.



Our Union finds it outrageous that HP’s Chief Executive Mark Hurd’s total 2008 compensation rose by 68% while the workforce are being forced to make huge sacrifices.



Our Union joins UNI-Europa and the European Metalworkers Federation (EMF) to call on EDS/HP to:

• Stop compulsory redundancies
  
• Maintain the skills, knowledge and human capital of the group by giving absolute priority to redeployment, and re-skilling for jobs which are at risk, and to prepare for anticipated skill shortages
  
• Provide full information and proper consultation with trade union representative bodies both here in the UK and in a Europe wide context
  
• Commit to negotiated solutions

Our Union will be joining our sister EDS union, UNITE to protest at a HP site at Wood Street in London, on the morning of Thursday the 29^th January.



In addition, PCS will be holding local workplace meetings on the 29^th and 30^th wherever we can to further our campaign for a fair pay rise and job security. Speak to your local workplace rep (see www.pcs.org.uk/eds for info on local reps) for information on dates, times and locations.





Actions in Europe



Actions to be taken by European unions include a rally in the streets of Paris as part of a national trade union action, a ‘freezing Friday’ march around the HP site in Diegem, Belgium and large workplace meetings to take place for EDS workers in Germany. This follows strike action taken on the 23^rd of January by Italian trade unions.



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