10 days of action at EON over threat to jobs

Services union ver.di has called a demonstration outside the head quarters of the EON energy company in Düsseldorf on 18 June. The protest is over the company’s “savings” programme that unions fear could lead to the loss of 6,000 jobs across Europe with outsourcing affected a further 4,000 employees who are likely to find themselves covered by poorer collective agreements or by no collective agreement at all. Unions are particularly critical of the company because it recently announced substantial profits and a 10% increase in its dividend payments. Delegations of union representatives from