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XAVIER PÉREZ, EWC ALSTOM, UGT Catalunya

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Alstom is represented in 10 countries (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, UK, Belgium, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, and Holland). It is also based in other countries, but these are working centers where there are less than 150 workers.

I have been in the European Works Council of my company since December 2012.

Due to the restructuring we have undergone, we have gone from having a council with 38 people to one of only 18. The positive experience in this council has been that we were able to stop the closure of factories in the winds division. The negative part would basically be when we were not able to stop the restructuring, which meant selling an important part of the turnover to General Electrics.

In terms of figures, we can say that in the transportation branch in Barcelona we saved 50% of the workforce, and on a European scale an entire plant, located in Switzerland, was also saved.

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