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"Mr President, this package by the European Commission advocates reducing the burden on companies from workers’ social security contributions; that is, it advocates cutting labour costs and decapitalising social security systems, thereby paving the way for its privatisation and the robbery of the workers by these means. Yet into what does the European Commission say that company start-ups should be channelled? Into this new sector of opportunity that they call the social economy and social companies, which means replacing the public services that they ordered shut down, transforming the peoples’ rights into business opportunities. The European Commission also advocates pegging wages to productivity; a magic formula for loading responsibility for a company’s performance – which, as we know, is based on a range of factors – onto the shoulders of the workers. This package of measures presents us with other pearls of wisdom, such as the need to introduce flexible working hours, the implementation of time banks and the creation of conditions favourable to worker mobility; in other words, they are promoting emigration as a solution to the lack of jobs. How can anyone applaud a European Commission package promoting job creation when the same package advocates public sector layoffs in several countries. The European Commission may now be attempting to have a social rhetoric, but its policies have exacerbated the recession and, with it, unemployment. We call for an end to the policies of neoliberalism and so-called austerity. Europe needs a recovery that includes public sector investment and increased wages."@en1
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