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"Today’s decision by the European Parliament on the liberalisation of postal services by the MEPs of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, the social democrats, the liberals and other political forces is a heavy blow for workers in the sector and more generally.
The proposal paves the way for transferring the infrastructures and the public postal services sector as a whole to business groups in order to increase their profits.
The argument about falling prices due to competition is a myth because, with the proposed arrangements for abolishing uniform pricing and the terms on which the universal postal service is to be maintained, we shall have increases in prices and a deterioration in the postal services provided.
The labour and social rights of the workers will be put to a Procrustean bed, with the extension of flexible forms of employment, the blow to collective agreements and so forth.
There is doubt as to the confidentiality of communications, which is safeguarded constitutionally, as correspondence will be moved by private individuals, without any guarantee and with minimum facilities for checking if the confidentiality of correspondence and the protection of personal data are being safeguarded.
Postal services are a social commodity.
The Greek Communist Party voted against the proposal on the liberalisation of postal services."@en1
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