Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-11-14-Speech-1-045"
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"Mr President, I want to raise the Irish Ferries shipping company’s plans to replace over 500 employees with low-paid slave labour provided by agency workers, many from outside the European Union. This practice of social dumping is wholly unacceptable and the European Union has a responsibility to protect the rights of all workers, including seafarers who work European waters.
The wage rates and secondary benefits afforded to seafarers must be in line with those applicable in the relevant Member States. Irish Ferries must honour its agreements with workers and trade unions in the company. There is no case for breaking these agreements. We need a European ferries directive to ensure that Irish Ferries and other companies like it cannot ride roughshod over the rights of workers present and future.
This Parliament must actively oppose the ‘race to the bottom’ approach to employment and working conditions which is now rife within the European Union."@en1
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