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The former Commissioner Bolkestein’s conviction was that good laws and good collective wage agreements of the kind that are to be found in many EU Member States would be in permanent competition with the poor regulatory arrangements that prevail in others. Existing differences would be made into a factor in competition, the intention being that the worst would always win. This extremely neo-liberal approach was intended to wreck all that the labour movement had fought for and achieved over the course of a century.
The fact that the directive in its original form will not see the light of day is thanks to the mass action on the part of trade unionists and other organisations. Instead, there will be a vague compromise between the two biggest groups in this Parliament. In order that this House should not come to any unambiguous decisions, a great deal is to be immediately put in the hands of the Court of Justice, which may well promptly opt in favour of the highly-controversial country-of-origin principle. Those of us here who are members of the Socialist Party of the Netherlands have had no hand in this compromise. Although we vote to reject it outright, we will, until such time as the directive enters fully into effect, support all proposed amendments that the trade union movement regards as improvements. In the meantime, the struggle goes on; we, together with the trade union movement, will resist all attempts by the bosses at making it possible for people to be employed for lower wages."@en1
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