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"In contrast to the Council and the Commission which represent the governments, the European Parliament is supposed to be the democratic expression of the entire population. The Trentin report, however, shows that although Parliament is elected by the people, it represents the interests of employers alone, instead of the interests of the working classes of the European Union.
The modifications requested by Parliament’s rapporteur all have the same goal, namely to make employees’ conditions worse. The aim of the report is to achieve job flexibility. It recommends what it has the cheek to call active ageing, in other words to make people work longer and to push back the age of retirement. The only reason that social policy is mentioned is to affirm with brutal cynicism that this must be a productive factor. For example, although it promotes a policy of lifelong learning, this is so that employers will have a mobile and qualified workforce to meet their needs.
Regarding what it calls restructuring processes – which, in actual fact, means collective redundancies – it limits itself to promoting preventative consultation of workers. The only social measure in this report is, therefore, that workers must be warned when they will be made redundant.
We shall vote against this text which is designed for employers."@en1
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