The European trade union confederation (ETUC) received the opinions given by the twho Advocates general in the Laval and Viking line cases (see our story n°070015), and welcomed them as "good news". In these cases, pending before the CJEC, confronting the unions' right to collective action to the EU's fundamental freedom that is the free movement of services, "unions' rights were respected", the ETUC congratulated itself. On the other hand, opinions seem to be more balanced when it comes to examine the compatibily of these collective actions to EU law according to their modalities and their purpose. The CJEC still has to settle this thorny problem. (Ref. 070458 )
In the Laval un Partneri case (C-341/05), a Latvian construction company, which had won a public project for the construction of a school in the city of Valxhom, Sweden, started negotiations with the Swedish union Svenska Byggnadsarbetareförbundet on the amount of the posted workers’ wages. Negotiations were blocked because, since the company thought that wage claims were too high, the union had launched an action to block the construction site, to which was added a solidarity action from the e
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