7 Amendments of Jutta STEINRUCK related to 2013/2277(INI)
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 3 – point 1 (new)
(1) Condemns the fact that many of the provisions and measures taken in the troika policy programs are not in line with the principles of the Treaty quoted in recitals B to E, is particularly concerned about the interventions in the field of wages and the systems of collective bargaining themselves. deplores the fact that the Commission has failed in this respect to function as the guardian of the Treaty;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – point 2 (new)
Paragraph 3 – point 2 (new)
(2) Condemns the fact that the policy implemented under the troika went much further in those cases where social partners reached a joint agreement, thereby not respecting the balance reached by social partners in terms of wage measures and/or on labour market reform;
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Is concerned that, among the conditions for financial assistance, the programmes include recommendations for specific cuts in fundamental areas of the fight against poverty, such as pensions, basic services, health care and pharmaceutical products for the basic protection of the most vulnerable; highlights the fact that the main impact of these measures is on the fight against child povertyse measures have led to significant falls in real social spending with a main impact on poverty in general and child poverty in particular;
Amendment 173 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Regrets the fact that the programmes imposed on the four countries allow firms to opt out of collective bargaining agreements and to review sectoral wage agreements directly affecting the structure and values of collective bargaining arrangements set out in the respective national constitutions; notes that this resulted in a request by the ILO Expert Committee, in the case of Greece, to re- establish social dialogue, and, in the case of Portugal, for the Constitutional Court to annul certain legislative measures; stresses that this despicable situation is the consequence of having limited structural reforms involving only the deregulation of labour relations and wage cuts atcondemns the undermining of the principle of collective representation by extending the right to conclude firm level agreements on less favourable terms to shady and non-representative "associations of persons", by abolishing the automatic renewal of bargaining agreements and/or by imposing much stricter criteria on the legal extension of collective bargaining agreements, as a result of which the number of collective agreements in force has substantially fallen in Greece and Portugal and wage dynamics have collapsed; condemns the cut in minimum wages in Greece and the freezing of nominal minimum wages in Portugal; stresses that this despicable situation is the consequence of handing over decision power to economic and financial actors only, without these actors being in any way const,rained by the European and international Social Aquis", thereby leading to policies which isare in clear contradiction with the EU’'s general objectives and the policies of the Europe 2020 strategy;
Amendment 180 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Notes that the conditionality within the financial assistance has imposed the dismantling of existing wage-setting arrangements either by completely abolishing institutions of cross-sectorial wage setting, as in Ireland, or by continuously hollowing out existing systems of sectorial collective bargaining. These measures include: the abolition or termination of national collective agreements; facilitating the derogation of firm-level agreements from sectorial agreements or legislative provisions, for instance through opening or hardship clauses or by generally giving firm-levels agreements priority over (cross-) sectorial agreements; suspension of the favourability principle, the introduction of more restrictive criteria for the extension of collective agreements; the reduction of the after-effect of expired collective agreements and the extension of the possibility of non-union employee representatives to conclude collective agreements at company level.
Amendment 192 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 19 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 19 – point 1 (new)
(1) Calls on the European Commission to draw up a detailed report of the breaches made against the spirit and the principles of the European Social Aquis in the programme countries, with a view to proposing measures to restore the Social Aquis. Insists that national and European social partners, through the European Social Dialogue should be closely involved in this.
Amendment 220 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the EU not to apply such institutional and financial soluconstructions in future, and to put in place mechanisms enablforcing the EU institutions to achieve the social goals and policies set out in the Trespect and guarantee the European Social Aquis as laid down in the Treaties, in the charter of fundamental rights, in EU social direactives, in particular those relating to the individual and collective rights of those at greatest risk of social exclusion;European social partner agreements and in other international level obligations (ILO conventions, the European Social Charter and the European Convention of Human Rights). To this end, proposes to, amongst other things, establish a specialised chamber for social issues of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and review the procedures for introducing legal complaints.