Following the decision
made to temporarily transfer out of Cote d'Ivoire
the Regional Office for Africa and the Sub-regional
Office, the staff union and the administration have
agreed to initiate discussions on resulting consequences
for locally recruited staff.
A delegation from our
local Staff Union Committee has arrived in Geneva.
The titular regional representative for Africa,
3rd Vice-chair of the ILO Staff Union Committee,
is also present. Negotiations started this Monday
morning in ILO Headquarters.
The ILO Staff Union
expresses its full solidarity with all of our Abidjan
colleagues.
The Union side will
spare no effort to ensure that discussions about
to start result in solutions that are not only the
"least worst possible" for the more than
50 colleagues concerned - who total over 350 years
of loyal and committed service with the International
Labour Organization.
