back to article Strike! EPO staff to walk out this Thursday

Staff at the European Patent Office (EPO) will strike this Thursday in protest at how the organization's management continues to treat its union officials. All employees at the EPO's offices in Munich, The Hague, Berlin and Vienna will stage a one-day strike in protest of the patent office's targeting of staff that opposed …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    >persuade the EPO's administrative council to rein in president Benoît

    Balls.

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  3. Pat Att

    Who wil notice?

    As it can easily take ten years for an EP patent to be granted, who will notice one day away from the office?

    1. John G Imrie

      Re: Who wil notice?

      Any of the US companies on the fast track program?

  4. PassiveSmoking
    Coat

    Well that's Lance Armstrong screwed, then!

    ...... sorry.

  5. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

    I know some people from the Munich branch. From what I hear you'd think Battistelli is channelling Mussolini. Not a nice place to work at, at the moment.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Battistelli

      I work at the EPO, and whatever the SUEPO does, Battistelli blocks it. He cancelled Good Friday for our Vienna colleagues, as he stated that it is not an Austrian holiday, but he gave it to our Dutch colleagues and in Holland, it is not a public holiday!; where is the fairness in that?

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