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"In Europe, tens of millions of workers are wholly or partially unemployed. According to the rapporteur, however, everything is, apparently, more or less for the best, given that it stimulates ‘competitiveness’.
The East European ‘social dumping’ to which she refers means in reality a collapse in the living standards of workers and, concomitant with this, mass marketing over here and the excess profits of the Western companies present in Eastern Europe. That is because large Western capitalist groups have bought up the companies of Central Europe. Others have ‘delocalised’ their production to Central Europe, and they sometimes subsequently transfer it to still poorer countries, sowing devastation behind them.
Would the textile industry disappear from Western Europe? The French clothing industry has lost 134 000 jobs since 1986. Its shareholders have lost nothing, however. According to the industry bosses, this ‘modernisation of the production apparatus’, a total of 65% fewer employees, has not affected their turnover.
A ban on redundancies, backed by the threat of requisitioning companies that make profits, would be the only industrial policy to protect workers. Many companies that lay off workers in order to operate elsewhere still make profits. Their accumulated profits should be used to maintain salaries even if it means dividing the work between everyone."@en1
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