The Congress of the ETUC approved in Athens today an emergency resolution to urge Ecofin to change its political course immediately

Athens, 16/05/2011

On the eve of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council, the Congress of the European Trade Union Confederation adopted an emergency resolution with a special procedure. Expressing full solidarity and support with the workers and the trade union movement in Greece and other countries that are severely tested by the different austerity measures, Congress said that they will never accept direct or indirect interventions in pay, in the autonomy of collective bargaining or in national wage formation systems.

- ETUC letter to the Ministers of Finance

- Emergency Resolution: ETUC Congress urges ECOFIN Council to change its political course immediately