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"Arlette Laguiller, Armonia Bordes and Chantal Cauquil voted against the Charter, being aware that charters afford no real protection for workers in this class-ridden society where the only thing that counts is the balance of power. This Charter refuses to include such basic rights as the right to a decent retirement pension, the right to a minimum wage, to decent housing, to health care. What is more, exemptions are possible to the article prohibiting children’s work before they have finished their compulsory schooling. This is a serious state of affairs when it is known that, in a number of European countries, an intolerable number of children are working, being exploited and being denied the right to a proper education. The text does not offer any additional protection and gives governments and the wealthy classes further arms to attack in these areas. The right to strike, for example, is acknowledged only with the proviso that it is limited “in accordance with national laws and practices”.
The Charter therefore has no binding force upon countries whose legislation does not go quite so far as the minimum contained in the Charter. In countries whose legislation is more favourable to workers, however, the Charter may be cited to oppose the national legislation in courts of law. Instead of pulling human rights and social rights up to a higher level, the Charter will enable actions that will effectively reduce them to the lowest common denominator."@en1
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