Moves by European Parliament legislators to improve the proposed Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages offer valuable changes for working people, especially the low paid, according to the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). The improvements put to the Parliament’s Employment Committee, strongly supported by the ETUC, include: stating that collective bargaining involves trade unions and not just ‘workers’ organisations’, giving trade unions a right to access workplaces, and ensuring that national plans for collective bargaining include action against union-busting by unscrupulous employers.
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For more information, please contact Paul de Beer or Oana Ciuca, De Burcht (Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement) p.t.debeer@uva.nl or the Head of communications at the ETUI, Mehmet Koksal mkoksal@etui.org. For previous full issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit https://www.etui.org/Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter or consult the archive with all articles in our database at www.cbnarchive.eu.
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