3 Amendments of Paul MURPHY related to 2012/2134(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that many of these new jobs result from the practice of big companies of replacing directly employed workers with self-employed workers as a way of cutting costs and undermining unionisation of the workforce; condemns this practice and stresses again the need for full trade union rights in SMEs as the best way to safeguard wages and working conditions;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that SMEs are facing difficulties primarily as a result of the decline in domestic demand due to the economic crisis and exacerbated by the implementation of austerity policies; considers the ending of austerity policies and the redevelopment of the economy through public investment programmes as an effective assistance for the majority of SMEs;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that, despite the widespread nationalisation of the banking sector in many EU countries as well as the provision of capital to banks by the state, the banking sector is still being run as profit-maximising bodies, in the narrow interests of shareholders and not in the interests of SMEs, homeowners or consumers that require credit; calls for the banking sector to be genuinely brought into democratic and public ownership so that it will supply credit to those that require it;