Our aims for Collective Bargaining in 2009-2014

(9 June 2009, Brussels) For the congress period 2009-2014, in the area of collective bargaining, EPSU have unanimously adopted the following resolution:

The resolution affirms the principles and objectives that EPSU affiliates commit to in the field of collective bargaining, including:
 ensuring that social justice, trade union and human rights take preference over competition rules and trade in Europe and elsewhere
 that global competition is directly effecting public service workers as social dumping undermines the protection afforded by collective agreements
 that strong and effective trade unions are essential to collective bargaining
 that trade union rights, collective bargaining and social dialogue need to be developed and defended as part of the European social model.

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