In a joint declaration revealed at the tripartite social summit organized today, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) for unions and BusinessEurope, the CEEP and the UEAPME for employers are asking that the European and national social partners be consulted and involved in the different steps of the economic coordination process – European governance –, which will have a major impact on employment and working conditions. The signing parties expect that national and Community institutions won’t carry out their reform to the detriment of social dialogue. (Ref. 130651)
Heavy past. The steamroller of the reforms imposed by the Troika, usually without consulting the national social partners, interference on themes governed by collective bargaining, the taking apart of collective negotiations in the name of flexibility, economic convergence procedures determined without dialogue, the least that can be said is that European institutions failed to set an example in recent years in terms of compliance with bargaining and social dialogue principles, yet these values are at the center of the European social model.
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