The Congress of the ETUC approved in Athens today an emergency resolution to urge Ecofin to change its political course immediately
During the first day of the ETUC congress in Athens, trade union delegates from 36 countries sent a clear message with an emergency resolution and a letter to the ministers of Finance urging them change the logic of the financial bailouts, to respect the autonomy of social partners and to remind them that Europe has no competence on pay.
On the eve of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council, the Congress of the European Trade Union Confederation adopted an emergency resolution with a special procedure. Expressing full solidarity and support with the workers and the trade union movement in Greece and other countries that are severely tested by the different austerity measures, Congress said that they will never accept direct or indirect interventions in pay, in the autonomy of collective bargaining or in national wage formation systems.
ETUC letter to the Ministers of Finance
Emergency Resolution: ETUC Congress urges ECOFIN Council to change its political course immediately
