You are probably annoyed by all the messages sent by the staff organisations asking you to vote for them. Generation 2004 has been rather moderate with no more than a handful of targeted messages. The same cannot be said of Union for Unity (U4U) which seems to have taken a very significant lead in the spamming competition. Between mid-September and end of October, we have counted more than 40 messages sent by the official U4U functional mailbox (REP-PERS-OSP-U4U) and their satellite mailboxes (Collectif des Contractuels, Union for Unity U4U, G. Vlandas the leader of U4U and the Reflection Group on the Future of the European Civil Service (GRASPE)). That’s about one message per day since the middle of September. As far as Generation 2004 is concerned, just read our manifesto, everything is there, no need for spamming!
In addition, our walls are covered with posters with essentially zero information content; at Generation 2004, we tried initially to limit ourselves to the boards dedicated to these campaign posters but because of the inflation in the number of posters, we have had to align ourselves on our competitors, although we are probably still the most conservative organisation. Unfortunately, the electoral “code de bonne conduite” allows staff organisations to put posters up in many places. Next time, maybe DG HR andthe Office for Infrastructure and Logistics in Brussels (OIB) could come up with a more restrictive policy and even more importantly enforce the policy?