Brussels, 07/02/2011 (Agence Europe) - Reacting to the debate that started last Friday at the European Council about a “so-called” Competitiveness Pact, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) “firmly states that it cannot tolerate that competitiveness is being abused as yet another excuse to intervene in collective bargaining systems across Europe.”
“This is not a pact for competitiveness. It is a perverse pact for lower living standards, more inequality and more precarious...