The European trade union movement launched last March a campaign to fight the social and economic crisis. ETUC is on the offensive for a New Social Deal in Europe, calling for: an extended recovery programme; stronger welfare states; an end to the recent decisions of the European Court of Justice favouring market freedoms over workers’ fundamental rights and collective agreements; an effective regulation of financial markets and a fair distribution of wealth.
This wide-ranging campaign ‘Fight the crisis: put the people first’ places citizens at the heart of the campaign and will serve to make the governments assume their responsibility of providing European responses to the crisis, rather than simply taking case-by-case measures. The campaign will include four European days of action from 14 to 16 May 2009. Support these days of action and join the ETUC demonstrations in Brussels (15 May), Berlin (16 May), Prague (16 May) and Madrid (14 May). More information on these days of action can be found here: http://www.etuc.org/a/5972
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