Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-11-18-Speech-2-160"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-11-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Market access to port services2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031118.6.2-160"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-11-18-Speech-2-1612
lpv:speaker	lp:Bent Hindrup Andersen2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; JuniBevægelsen (2003-03-01--2004-07-19)3 member; EDD (2003-03-01--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2003-03-25--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, if the European Parliament is to be taken seriously, it must stick to its previous decisions and vote against the outcome of the conciliation. None of the important changes adopted by Parliament at second reading of the Commission’s proposal can in any way be found in the conciliation document. For example, the right to demand on a national basis that collective agreements be adhered to has been completely disregarded. Furthermore, liberalisation now also extends to include the pilots. If Parliament votes in favour of the proposal, the shipowners will interpret it themselves and be free to decide at whim whether to use seamen or port workers, just as entrepreneurs and shipowners will be able to sit loose to hard-won rights and collective wage agreements. Both will be free to choose whom they want to work for them, and they will be able to use unorganised and underpaid labour for loading and unloading ships, rather than use well-trained port workers who, through agreements, have secured their entitlement to the work and to proper conditions. The consequence will be unemployed port workers, together with ports of convenience consonant with our now seeing ships sailing under flags of convenience. Liberalisation is also partly responsible for undermining port security at a time when major investments are otherwise being made in securing the ports against terrorism. In Denmark, it is not only the case of the 1 500 or so port workers that is on the agenda. It is the Danish model for agreements that is in danger. That is the principle involved in how far the EU should go in harmonising, and intervening in, wage and working conditions. It is quite conceivable that other groups of workers will be up for consideration. It is therefore important for a line to be drawn in the sand."@en1

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