This website is promoting a Europe-wide petition for the following
- A revision to the posted workers directive, to ensure that it is understood, that through collective agreement and actions, mandatory standards can be guaranteed.
- A social progress clause making it clear that the fundamental right to organise and the right to strike are in no way subordinate to the economic freedoms.
We need to persuade the Commission to honour their commitment. The purpose of this petition is to build up a groundswell of support for action now!
NB: Should 1 million signatures be gathered, then the Petitions Committee of the European Parliament, will pass it on to the European Commission, so that proper action is taken. So, please send this link to your colleagues and encourage them to sign.
Latest Bulletin
Right to strike over social dumping backed by key ILO body
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has ruled that judgements by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in 2006 were contrary to the most fundamental ILO standard - convention 87 on freedom of association. The ECJ decided that the freedom to strike was overruled by the freedom of employers to establish themselves or provide services in other EU states.
Their last 2010 report presents a series of observations on the "freedom of association, collective bargaining and industrial relations" per country. Great Britain re. Balpa case is presented below but feel free to look at the situation elsewhere .
Read the full bulletin (doc, 38kb)
Source: International Labour Conference, 99th Session, 2010