RMT slams ‘vindictive anti-working-class’ ECJ judgement

Publication Date: June 20 2008

SPECIALIST TRANSPORT union RMT has today condemned a European Court of Justice ruling that Luxembourg must remove labour laws that ensure equal treatment for national and foreign workers.

“This is another EU attack on trade union rights and national democracy,” RMT general secretary Bob Crow said today.

“This latest ECJ ruling shows that the Posting of Workers Directive was not introduced to protect foreign workers working abroad but to remove obstacles to bosses exploiting workers across the EU.

“This unaccountable and undemocratic EU court is being used to undermine collective bargaining rights and introduce social dumping in the name of the ‘free movement’.

“The time has come for labour movements across Europe to stand up and demand respect for national labour laws and the repeal of these vindictive and anti-working class ECJ judgments,” Bob Crow said.