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We did not want a negative vote to prevent the progress of this report, thus taking into account the desire of many of the trade unions.
By abstaining however, we are showing our rejection of the proposals, which, on the pretext of increasing the rights of workers, have obviously been written with employers’ interests in mind.
The report talks of ‘competitive needs’ but disregards the need to provide workers with the right to live and earn a wage. The author of the report perceives helping employers as a need. Yet, when it comes to workers’ rights, these are immediately restricted to the right to be informed about the redundancies that are to be made – preventing them is out of the question.
Workers’ councils are being refused the simple right of veto, even though, faced with an increase in collective redundancies, often in large companies which have been making huge profits for many years, a simple ban on redundancies would be enough to protect workers.
So, what exactly is this ‘partnership between employers and workers’ advocated by the report, where one of the partners has the right to take decisions which ruin the life of so many workers, even an entire region, and where the other partner has no rights, not even the right to safeguard his job?"@en1
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