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"I thank our rapporteur, Jan Andersson, for his report on this very important subject.
Recent cases before the ECJ, and indeed that Court’s judgments, mean that workers’ rights and workers’ solidarity through collective agreements are being threatened by companies whose only priority is profit, and if that means undermining workers’ rights, then so be it: they are prepared to do just that.
The European social model that we are rightly proud of is under attack and seriously under threat from profiteers.
The threat of imported cheap labour is a reality, brought in through the back door by unscrupulous employers under the guise of free movement.
The free movement principle was never intended to be a tool for cheap labour or as a principle by which workers’ social conditions can be diluted. What Jacques Delors would have made of this would be of great interest.
The Viking and Laval judgments are an attack on trade unions and workers’ rights. That is why Mr Andersson’s report is badly needed and why I will support it. It restores the balance so clearly abandoned by the ECJ in its recent judgments."@en1
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