Brussels, 26/08/2004 (Agence Europe) - At the time of animated debate on the 40 hour working week in Europe, John Monks, Secretary General of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has described the call for increased working hours as "opportunist" and that a working week of forty hours was not what Europe needed.
In a declaration Monks added that it was strange to see opponents to the practice of branch collective agreements are the same people today who were calling on all...