Post by account_disabled on Mar 13, 2024 19:48:53 GMT -8
Last June he pointed out, rather regretted, that this issue was a kind of “union bully . ” And it still is. Without news, and without proposals, since then in the union spheres, on October 27 the European Confederation of Trade Unions sent a brief note indicating that on the 28th nothing less than a PROPOSAL DIRECTIVE on the matter would be presented. And indeed, yesterday, October 28, Nicolas Schmit, European Commissioner for Employment, presented a proposal for a Directive on the subject. This culminates a process initiated in January of this year by the European Commission and which closed on September 4 of this year with the responses of all interested institutions to a survey on the matter. Union responses, if any, have not been publicized.
Yesterday afternoon the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) published information on the presentation of the proposed Directive with a brief note that it does not constitute a proposal on a topic AOL Email List that should be considered of utmost trade union interest. Of union interest if, as is periodically stated, European unionism intends to be so. At the same time, there was no news, much less a proposal, on the websites of the two large Spanish trade union confederations, and UGT. But it is not an issue that has gone unnoticed in the union world. As I have recalled on several occasions, already in 2007 at the Congress.
Seville, the issue was addressed with extensive discussion. It is true that in this Congress, as in the following ones until now, a clear position of European unionism was not achieved, and, even less, a union proposal to integrate into national and supranational union action. But salary is precisely the axis of labor relations. The price of labor power, the negotiation of whose value is essential in the organization and advancement of working class rights in all areas. We now have extensive data on salaries and wage costs in the countries of the European Union. These are data of obvious interest. But, from organized unionism, from union options that affirm their European option, we should witness a desire to build unionism at the European level, and to do so it is essential to address the salary issue with clear proposals, from the workplace to the employees. broader areas of the globalization of labor relations.
Yesterday afternoon the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) published information on the presentation of the proposed Directive with a brief note that it does not constitute a proposal on a topic AOL Email List that should be considered of utmost trade union interest. Of union interest if, as is periodically stated, European unionism intends to be so. At the same time, there was no news, much less a proposal, on the websites of the two large Spanish trade union confederations, and UGT. But it is not an issue that has gone unnoticed in the union world. As I have recalled on several occasions, already in 2007 at the Congress.
Seville, the issue was addressed with extensive discussion. It is true that in this Congress, as in the following ones until now, a clear position of European unionism was not achieved, and, even less, a union proposal to integrate into national and supranational union action. But salary is precisely the axis of labor relations. The price of labor power, the negotiation of whose value is essential in the organization and advancement of working class rights in all areas. We now have extensive data on salaries and wage costs in the countries of the European Union. These are data of obvious interest. But, from organized unionism, from union options that affirm their European option, we should witness a desire to build unionism at the European level, and to do so it is essential to address the salary issue with clear proposals, from the workplace to the employees. broader areas of the globalization of labor relations.