Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-02-13-Speech-4-118"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-02-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Crisis in the steel sector and the measures to be taken at Community level2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030213.5.4-118"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-02-13-Speech-4-1192
lpv:speaker	lp:Arlette Laguiller2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-04-25--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Lutte ouvrière (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the factory closures planned by Arcelor are scandalous. The group, which is the most powerful group in the world steel industry and is collapsing under its profits, coldly announces that it is going to close a total of six smelting works in Belgium, Germany and France, throwing out thousands of workers, condemning their families to poverty and devastating entire regions. For such a decision to be taken in secret by a board of directors, obeying the demands of a handful of financiers, shows the extent to which the system that you defend amounts to a dictatorship by money. The fact that this can happen, without even inciting a reaction from the political authorities aside from a few hypocritical groans, shows the extent to which the workers are unable to count on the authorities to defend them. We are told that periodical restructuring is inevitable in industry, but why is it always the workers that have to pay for that restructuring, and never the shareholders or the owners of the companies? I know that the problem is not only with the steel industry. At the moment in France the airline Air Lib is also shutting up shop and making 3 200 people redundant. Air Lib is not a steel company, but behind it, two years ago, was the same financial group, Marine Wendel, which made a fortune through the sweat and pain of generations of workers, steel workers, if not their blood. It is the shareholders of the group and their ringleader, Baron Sellière of the employers’ federation in France, Medef, who, by withdrawing their capital, were responsible for the collapse of Air Lib. This is why I say to the workers, both in the steel and air transport industries, and those going through the mass redundancies all over Europe, that we need to fight to establish a balance of power enabling workers to impose a ban on mass redundancies, on pain of expropriation. We need to take from the company profits or if need be from the personal fortunes of their owners and shareholders, in order to provide salaries for all the workers affected by the restructuring."@en1

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