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"Mr President, recently, in the Rüffert case, a Polish company paid 53 workers only 46% of the agreed wage for the trade in Germany. The Polish contractor was prosecuted; they responded by taking the case to court, and the ECJ recently voted in favour of the Polish subcontractor.
Not long ago, Mr John Monks, the President of the European Trade Union Confederation, speaking in a hearing in the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs about an earlier case – the Laval case – and warning of future cases, said that ‘we have been told that our right to strike is fundamental, but not as fundamental as the free movement of services’.
The trade union movement is rendered powerless by these rulings. The Services Directive and the Posting of Workers Directive represent a direct threat to everything that has been gained in workers’ rights in the last 30 years.
There have been three cases – Laval, Viking and now Rüffert – and a body of judicial interpretation is building that renders contracts meaningless, unions impotent and fairness of wages an empty term. As Mr Monk stated in the hearing on Laval, we need a protective protocol in the Lisbon Treaty or face social dumping in the future."@en1
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