EU: the European Trade Union Confederation refuses to bargain for the revision of the EWC Directive

In a letter to Vladimir Spidla, European Commissioner in charge of Employment and Social Affairs, the general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, John Monks, announced that he refuses European employers' offer to bargain for the revision of the 1994 Directive on EWCs. (Ref. 080292)
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“After intensive contacts with both BusinessEurope and the European Commission on the question of the revision of the European Works Council Directive, the General Secretary of the ETUC concluded that it is not practical for negotiations to commence within the framework of the social dialogue” the ETUC announced. On the one hand, the ETUC judges that the time to lead negotiations before the end of the mandates of the European Commission and of the European Parliament is too short. If the negoti

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