New legislation threatens right to strike
by Mark Corcoran
 
The regulation would put in place a Single Market Emergency Instrument (SMEI) which would allow the free movement of essential goods and services during a ‘crisis’.
The regulation would put in place a Single Market Emergency Instrument (SMEI) which would allow the free movement of essential goods and services during a ‘crisis’.

The European Commission plans to repeal an existing regulation on the functioning of the single market which explicitly safeguards to the right to strike, potentially putting the right to strike for European workers at risk.

 

The regulation would put in place a Single Market Emergency Instrument (SMEI) which would allow the free movement of essential goods and services during a ‘crisis’. Currently there is a safeguard in place that explicitly protects the right to strike in such an instance.

 

The new legislation does not contain such a safeguard and has caused concern among trade unions that a strike could be defined as a “crisis,” and that measures triggered by the SMEI could undermine collective action, in violation of the international rights such as the EU’s own Charter of Fundamental Rights.

 

Both EPSU and ETUC have written to the European Commission to try and ensure the right to strike is protected in the new legislation.

You can read the full letter HERE

 

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