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"Mr President, Commissioner, I welcome the recommendation, and I welcome even more the fact that the Commissioner seeks to combat social dumping and that Mr Barroso and Mr Špidla say that the right to strike does not subordinate free movement. However, your proposal does not go far enough. It does not go far enough to prevent social dumping.
Let us first look at what the court said in the Rüffert and Laval cases. It said that it is the minimum wage in the country of origin which counts, in other words a Polish worker must work in the same workplace as a German worker for 46% of the pay the German worker works for. If you had said that women had to work for 46% of what a man earns, we would have said that this was discrimination. In this case it is discrimination against Polish workers who do not receive the same pay as German workers. This is unacceptable.
Secondly, different social models are not judged in the same way. In the Rüffert case it is pointed out that collective agreements must be universally applicable, and not the model which was chosen in Lower Saxony. The same thing is done in the Laval case. Certain labour market models take precedence over others. This too is unacceptable.
Thirdly, it is said that the right to strike is fundamental, but when it is then weighed against free movement, it does not weigh very heavily, not very heavily at all. Instead it is free movement which takes precedence over it.
Some speakers have said ‘yes, but we must have free movement’. Of course we must, but how do we encourage free movement if we dump the conditions in countries? Do you believe that the people living in these countries will say ‘we welcome people’? No, they will be demanding closed borders. I am in favour of open borders between new and old Member States, but I am also in favour of equal terms for equal work, and that too must be fundamental. Therefore the Commission must take stronger action regarding amendments to the Posting of Workers Directive."@en1
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