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"Mr President, I welcome the opportunity to raise the report on industrial relations in the postal sector, which has just been published by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. Indeed, I wish this report had been available before we voted on the postal services. But even now, it is a timely wake-up call for all governments that will be privatising their postal services over the next number of years.
In the EU we are committed to the Lisbon Agenda, more and better jobs. Unfortunately, this report tells us that privatisation of the postal sector so far has delivered fewer but, more critically, worse jobs with poorer working conditions.
The report states that since the beginning of the liberalisation process, sectoral pay developments in all but three countries have been below the average. But crucially, in all countries, a pay gap exists between employees of the main providers and those of the new entrants or the alternative providers.
If left unchecked, the situation will, and I quote from the report, ‘erode employment conditions and lead to more conflictual industrial relations’. So far, postal privatisation has failed the Lisbon test."@en1
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