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08/04/2011
Finance Ministers continue downward pressure on wages
At their informal meeting in Budapest, the EU ministers of finance will discuss the scoreboard of indicators that is to be used in the new European policy process on economic governance. The ETUC is especially concerned about the wage indicators that are being devised. These encroach on the autonomy of social dialogue and on trade union / employer negotiations. Publishing wage indicators and systematically linking these up with ‘economic governance’ will in practice come at (...)