French La Poste signs management-union negotiating agreement
The French post office, La Poste, has signed an agreement with the FO,CFDT, CFTC and CGC unions on the resolution of industrial disputes. The deal includes measures for the prevention of strikes and sets out the parameters of talks and the level at which they should be conducted. It also declares any management-union agreement to be valid provided it is supported by one or more unions which received at least 50 per cent of votes at the most recent union elections.
The agreement, say observers, is similar to the industrial-dispute prevention scheme set up by the Paris public transport authority, RATP, when Jean-Paul Bailly, was its chairman. Mr Bailly is now head of La Poste.
