General secretary and deputy general secretaries. Bernadette Ségol has been a part of European and international trade unionism since 1975, at first at the International Textile Federation, ITGLWF, and then at Euro-FIET (commerce, banking, technology, cleaning and private safety). When the FIET merged, in 2000, with MEI (media), CI (posts/telecom) and IGF (graphics) into UNI, Bernadette Ségol took the head of the Europe area (Uni Europa), to this day. There, she notably fought against the principle of the application of the country of origin in the service directive, for the temporary work directive and against the liberalization of the postal sector. Coming after John Monks, who ran the organization for the past eight years, Mrs. Ségol has a realistic view of the challenges her organization has to face: “We’re at a critical time, maybe even tragic, but also pivotal in European history.” The tragedy comes from these “practices that attack wages and collective bargaining and that undermined workers’ trust in the European project.” The bridge should come from “unionism resolutely keeping from coldly hiding behind national borders” and an ETUC “proposing alternatives to keep this from happening to workers’ detriment.”
ctive and against the liberalization of the postal sector. Coming after John Monks, who ran the organization for the past eight years, Mrs. Ségol has a realistic view of the challenges her organization has to face: “We’re at a critical time, maybe even tragic, but also pivotal in European history.” The tragedy comes from these “practices that attack wages and collective bargaining and that undermined workers’ trust in the European project.”
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