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"Mr President, it is the task of the European Court of Justice to issue judgments in line with the Treaties. Therefore the Treaties must be amended in order to protect workers’ interests. The conclusion from the Court’s rulings in the Laval, Viking Line and Rüffert cases is that the Lisbon Treaty cannot be approved by the wage-earners of Europe unless a clause on workers’ rights is added to the Treaty – the right to defend collective agreements, the right to take industrial action to improve pay and employment conditions.
Demanding pay higher than the minimum wage is now a trade barrier according to the Court, and the unions will not be able to prevent wage dumping. On 17 April this year Commissioner McCreevy answered in writing a question I asked on union rights as follows: ‘Trade unions can continue to take industrial action provided that this is motivated by legitimate aims which are compatible with EC law.’ You cannot put it more clearly than that. EC law must therefore be changed. Free movement, yes, but without discriminating against workers from other countries."@en1
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