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"The Van Lancker report outlines a few general principles, such as the right to a pension or a minimum salary and the right to strike, something the EU Council’s text, the only one with the value of a decision, does not even mention. For the rest, the rapporteur calls on Parliament to approve the supposed social policy the Commission has proposed to the Council, in other words, to approve a total vacuum, for there is not a single practical measure likely to improve the situation of the workers. There is nothing to force big firms to create jobs and they can even carry on shedding jobs when they make big profits.
The leaders of the European Union are asking the two sides of industry to play a greater part in the areas of employment that come within their remit, but that is pure cynicism. As if employers and employees were actually on an equal footing when it came to hiring. It is like accusing the jobless of being at least partially to blame for their own unemployment. So, while we voted to endorse the elementary social rights, in abstaining, we have rejected the general policy of complicity with the brutal practices of big business, which, throughout Europe, is making workers redundant, holding wages in check, creating more widespread job insecurity and weakening social protection.
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