13 Amendments of Lynn BOYLAN related to 2016/2010(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that in recent years hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost since the liberalisation of European postal services was launched as a consequence of market opening, and that a secondary contributing factor to job losses has been technological advances and digitalisation have transformed the postal services sector and that the modernisation and diversification of postal services has had a major impact on employment in the sector;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that it is difficult to see a single demonstrable positive effect for services, communities or workers that has resulted from the imposition of liberalisation of the postal services through the EU directives; notes that the only beneficiaries from the transposition of the directives have been multinational corporations, in particular the 'Big Five' in the global mailing and logistics sector (DHL, UPS, TNT, FedEx and GeoPost/DPD);
Amendment 14 #
2. Notes that, as predicted by the European trade union movement prior to the approval of the third Postal Services Directive, the number of part-time workers, agency workers and bogus self- employed persons in the sector has increased and that the general trend is towards more flexible employmen, that levels of unionisation of the workforce have declined as a result of aggressive anti-union policies by some corporations, and that precarious, insecure work has become far more prevalent in the sector; notes that liberalisation has directly caused a deterioration in the pay and conditions of postal workers as competing providers target contractly profitable areas, and seek to gain an advantage by driving down wages and standards;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes with concern that the data from the five member states that had already fully liberalised their postal services prior to the transposition of the third Postal Services Directive demonstrates that it results in a loss of jobs, a reduction in the quality of the services provided, and an increase in costs for consumers; notes that, for example, the privatisation of Royal Mail in Britain resulted in 55,000 job losses in three years; and that many rural communities in Member States have been left without any postal service as a result of liberalisation;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Condemns the Commission for imposing the third Postal Services Directive when its own preconditions had not been met in terms of ensuring quality working conditions for employees in the sector were guaranteed, and that full accessibility to postal services, including for rural citizens, would be guaranteed and financed;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes that in order to protect both working conditions and the standard of service, postal services should be a publicly regulated monopoly and that the most efficient way to ensure universal provision of affordable postal services to all is through a reserved area or regulated monopoly;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the role played by the social partners, who in many Member States have worked together with universal service providers in an effort to make the transformation of the postal services sector socially sustainable; is critical of the leaders of multinational corporations now operating in the sector who have suggested in the context of the economic crisis that cutting jobs and lowering wage levels of postal workers, as well as further liberalisation and less regulation, is the solution to falling revenues in the sector;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Condemns the Commission for imposing the third Postal Services Directive when its own preconditions had not been met in terms of ensuring quality working conditions for employees in the sector were guaranteed, and that full accessibility to postal services, including for rural citizens, would be guaranteed and financed;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Points out that jobs have been created as a result of restructuring and the introduction of new activities in the postal services sector and that, in keeping with these new circumstances, workers need to learn new skills; draws attention to the importance of training, further training and retraining; notes that successful diversification projects of the postal service in some Member States that have prevented massive job losses have included increasing financial services (e.g., postal savings banks), local government services, provision of digital and hybrid mail, and business to customer parcel delivery;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to compile more data on workforce size and working conditions so that they can respond promptly to developments and potential problems; insists that, since the Commission failed to ensure no loss of conditions before the third directive was transposed as it was required to do, that the Commission and Member States must now act to prevent the further deterioration of working conditions for postal workers and to reverse the decline that has occurred since liberalisation was imposed;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Expresses grave concern that the draft TTIP text, if adopted, will severely restrict the use of universal service obligations (USOs) which are crucial in the postal services sector in guaranteeing universal access to the service at an affordable cost, and reduce competition by public postal operators; notes that these policies have been campaigned for by the major postal and courier corporations such as FedEx; notes that all Member States in which governments retain shares in or subsidise the national postal service operator or enforce the provision of universal service obligations will be negatively impacted if TTIP is adopted;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Rejects the Commission's stance in the TTIP negotiations on banning the reversal of privatisations through the 'standstill' clauses and the locking in of future deregulation under a proposed 'ratchet' provision in the context of the demonstrable negative impact of postal services liberalisation on workers and communities;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Member States to guarantee all workers in the postal services sector appropriathigh-quality and secure working conditions.