SOCIAL EUROPE UNDER ATTACK.

PositionEuropean Trade Union Confederation - Brief article

With the start of the new European semester', the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has accused the Commission of interfering with implementation of the EU and IMF rescue plans in Greece and Ireland. Unions from these two countries allege that Commission officials are ignoring social dialogue processes and exerting pressure to reduce social policy achievements.

The ETUC speaks of a diktat meant to "lower living standards" and of Commission proposals aiming to "reduce wage rigidities, to cut minimum wages and pensions, to make labour markets more flexible and, in the case of Ireland, to permit salaries to reflect market conditions". "This policy...

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