The R&D section at the EP has publicized its strong agreement with anti-precariousness positions taken up by Parliamentarians in a resolution [1] . Parts of the R&D text are somewhat fuzzy due to being translated too literally from French into Franglais, so some readers may get the impression that R&D has played a major part in persuading the EP. If that is so, they have been very secretive until now.
NPS [2] and SID [3] jointly developed Petition 0178/2017 against Automatically Firing Contract Agents [4] and with much appreciated support from G2004 [5] got the endorsement of the EP’s Petitions Committee [6] which passed the petition on to Legal Affairs Committee. [7] In all that time, we never heard even a whisper from the R&D, so discrete that we did not know they were there. Maybe you, dear reader can help us out. Here is a video clip of the key meeting [8].
Send us an email [9] if you can identify R&D members in the room.