Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-10-20-Speech-2-221"
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"It was with the Nokia employees and their unfair redundancies in mind that we voted for this text. We are anxious to stress, however, that we are not satisfied with having to vote for the best of a bad lot: help with job searches in the context of absurd mass redundancies on the part of the world’s leading mobile telephone manufacturer, Nokia, redundancies described here as one of the hazards of a form of globalisation that we should just put up with.
We denounce this idea of globalisation ‘adjustment’, since this is how the European Union refers to social and human tragedies such as this, which see companies that post record profits relocate in order to make more profit, thus ruining the lives of hundreds of workers and an entire region. This charitable remedy (the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund) that is being proposed will not make people forget that the European Union is, in fact, directly responsible for the tragedy being suffered by the redundant employees, because of its choice of free and fair competition. Rather than supporting these ‘adjustments’ to all the huge uncertainties of the globalised capitalist economy, the European Union should prohibit such practices and protect European citizens."@en1
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