Published Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 09:48
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franciscopolo 
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On 10 June the Labour Ministries of the European Union agreed the possibility of enlarging the work journey to 60 hour or, eventually, 65 hours if the company and the worker agree to do so. The reaction in Spain: this is a clear attack to the Social Europe we are trying to achieve and we are not going to assume it easily.
Today in Europe, the maximum work journey is set at 48 hours per week. It was set this way by the International Labour Organisation in 1917. According to Lourdes Muñoz a recognised socialist blogger in Spain:
This Directive will eliminate the right to rest during the continued working journeys, it attempts against the safety and health at the work place and difficult the conciliation of personal and working life.
The promoters of this initiative affirm that this Directive will implement the freedom to individually negotiate the length of our own working journey but as we all know theory is theory and there will be no negotiation. Individualisation of the working relations will break balance.
Fighting in favour of this balance implies us all. In Spain, Cesar Calderón, a Spanish activist, has started a campaign called “65 hours? In your dreams.”
Don’t keep quiet. Join us!
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1. Working time by joanmve
on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 07:55
In any way we will accept this working time enlargement, as it was a hard figth of the workers to get the actual working time. Furthermore, try to implement individually negotiations is a way to weak the power of the workers.To be able to post comments you need to be logged in. No account yet? Register here! Lost your password?