ETUC continues to challenge economic governance proposals

Europe

The ETUC used last month’s tripartite social summit to maintain its criticism of the European Commission’s economic governance proposals and the Competitiveness Pact that calls for wage moderation and decentralisation of wage determination. The ETUC argues that there have to be more social guarantees in the economic governance proposals and that wage moderation is not a solution to the economic crisis or the problems facing the Euro.
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