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International: Unions call for Europe-wide redeployment and reskilling plan at EDS

In September 2008, Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced 9,300 job losses in Europe as a result of its acquisition of Electronic Data Systems (EDS), prompting trade unions to call for consultations, no compulsory redundancies and a Europe-wide redeployment and reskilling plan.

HP completed its takeover of EDS, which is also based in the US, in August 2008.