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Voices of precarious workers in Brussels
[25/06/2010]
On 21 June, SOLIDAR organised a meeting at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in which four workers living precarious working conditions were given centre-stage to share their experiences and suggestions of how to improve working conditions around Europe.
This event has shown how important it is to involve people directly witnessing precarious working conditions in order to better address the challenge of creating and defending quality jobs as well as to promote decent work and to cope with what is lacking in EU policy strategies, such as EU2020 and the Employment Guidelines, and the EU legal framework.
The four precarious workers at the event were Mark Anderson, born in Sierra Leone and refugee in Romania; Manuel Ortiz, Dominican migrant initially exploited in the informal Italian economy; Judith Portocarrero, highly skilled migrant worker who cannot find her place in Italy; and Igor Ratsuk, involved as a tram driver in the Estonian transport trade union.
They have all provided an invaluable input and contributed to discussions on issues such as the reception conditions of asylum seekers, the discrimination faced by migrants concerning their access to the labour market, the implementation of the flexicurity concept in a way of focusing primarily on measures to flexibilise the labour market at the expense of measures to increase the security of workers, the recognition of migrant qualifications and the increasing difficulties for social dialogue to be effective.
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