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Increased levels of unemployment and announcements of new waves of redundancies – that is what we have to show for five years of the European Employment Strategy. The European Union's restructuring policy does not create jobs, it restricts them, especially full-time, stable jobs, while so-called growth deprives millions of people of the right to work or offers them a poor substitute in the form of part-time employment, with all the financial and social consequences that has for family life.
So celebrations are unjustified and do not reflect the real picture, which is that generalised, long-term unemployment – and we are talking decades here – is hovering around 10% and is accompanied by generalised, temporary, short-term forms of employment, for which employers may even be subsidised, in order to artificially reduce the figures by making several unemployed persons share one job.
Active employment policies are being used as an excuse to subsidise big business while depriving families of even the most basic right to survival. The proposed 'employability' model may appear to reduce official unemployment statistics, but it does not reduce the fear, insecurity, unhappiness or poverty of working-class families.
Pronouncements about combating poverty, full employment and so on are hypocritical and their only objective is to foster self-delusion among the working classes and take the edge off the social problems which the very policy of serving multinational interests creates.
That is why we call on the workers to rally round and overturn this anti-grass roots policy."@en1
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