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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-09-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:VOTE2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010904.6.2-106"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-09-04-Speech-2-1072
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Socialistische Partij (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2000-11-09--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"No business can operate without the people who do the work. The shop floor has great insight into what goes wrong and how things can be improved. That insight is often ignored; after all, these workers are not hired to pass judgement. According to traditional power relations, only ownership and management count. Workers seem nothing but a necessary evil who are completely irrelevant to the business and who are only hired temporarily from the outside world. In the case of reorganisations, it is the shareholders and managers who make the decisions; the workers feature at the bottom of the list. Thousands of people are asked to leave because another product requiring other skills is deemed more profitable, because production is shifted to a country where wages are lower or even because the business wants to penalise the workers for wanting better working conditions. Unfortunately, the rapporteur is not suggesting that workers should be given the right to free access to information and to suspensive veto. If suspensive veto were to be applied during restructuring, alternatives could first be considered and developed in full public view and with the use of all the expertise available, and the monopoly of management and owners of the businesses would subsequently be broken."@en1

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