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"en.20080902.4.2-081"2
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"Mr President, the so-called ‘social package’ that the European Commission has presented is a failed attempt to defuse the indignation the Commission’s unpopular policy has aroused among employees. It fails to stem the rising tide of doubt about itself and the structure of the EU, as also expressed by the resounding Irish ‘no’ vote.
Working-class people and the poor find themselves in the line of fire because of a long, harsh, anti-popular attack by the EU, which aims to increase the profitability of its own cartels.
Working-class people and the poor have to put up with the deregulation and privatisation of public bodies and services of strategic importance, the complete breakdown of labour bargaining, the undermining of collective employment contracts, the widespread implementation of flexicurity, temporary flexible forms of employment and the extension of the Bolkestein directive to cover the health authorities sector.
The Council has decided to partition working time into active and inactive segments. This obliges employees to work 65 to 77 hours a week. The institution of heavy and unhealthy labour is rendering hundreds of thousands of Greek workers useless.
According to the formal statistical data from the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work – Mr President, please bear with me for a few moments, as the information I am about to impart is very important. Let me point out the following: according to the formal data, every 4½ seconds an employee has an accident and every 3½ minutes an employee loses his life. There are 7 million accidents every year…"@en1
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"Georgios Toussas (GUE/NGL )."1
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