Election manifesto focus: Quality jobs for all

We launched our European election 2019 manifesto, which calls for the EU to defeat populism by finally putting workers first after a decade of austerity, in Brussels on April 2. Each day this week we'll be focusing on one of the five parts of our vision for a social Europe.

The first of our European election demands is quality jobs for all.

We need quality jobs with good wages, job security, safe and healthy workplaces and a high level of social protection. Time has come to end the ‘bad job recovery’ with the increase of precarious work and in-work poverty. The current recovery offers a unique opportunity to replace the neoliberal mantra that ‘any job is better than no job’ with a European strategy for ‘more but better jobs’.

industriAll Europe demands:

A pay rise to allow workers across the EU to get their fair share in generated wealth and to support the economy.
To combat wage competition and the persistent wage gaps within the EU. Where necessary a minimum wage which corresponds to a living wage should be set up.
To strengthen Collective Bargaining Systems as the best way to tackle inequalities, guarantee good wages and working conditions for the benefit of the many not the few.
To ensure equal opportunities for all and tackling discrimination on labour markets.
To end in-work poverty and the exploitation of workers.
Tokeep older workers in the workplace.
To support a swift integration of migrants into the labour markets.
To regulate the gig economy and platform work. In particular, all workers must have access to good working conditions and a decent level of social protection irrespective of their employment contract.
To offer a job guarantee to all workers that lost their job.

You can read our full manifesto in: English - French - German and support our manifesto by clicking here.

Election manifesto focus: Quality jobs for all

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