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STTK's President urges more cooperation between European trade unions

Mikko Mäenpää, the President of the Finnish Confederation of Professionals STTK, spoke on Wednesday in Lisbon.

STTK's President urges more cooperation between European trade unions

Published 26.06.2014 at 14:01
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Mikko Mäenpää, the President of the Finnish Confederation of Professionals STTK, spoke on Wednesday in Lisbon.

Helsinki (30.11.2012 - Juhani Artto)

European trade unions should engage in even closer cooperation especially now when there are serious political tensions in the EU, says Mikko Mäenpää, the President of the Finnish Confederation of Professionals STTK. He spoke on Wednesday in Lisbon at a conference where Portuguese and Nordic labour market models were compared.

Cuts in wages and social security in one member state inevitably puts pressure - sooner or later - on other member states to follow suit and implement similar cuts, he argued. Moreover, closer cooperation between European unions is essential if the trade union movement hopes to have any influence with the European Commission in regard to safety and health matters among other things. Mäenpää criticized the Commission's work programme for the coming year for ignoring the EU’s Strategy on Safety and Health at Work.

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More cooperation is needed between the trade unions in Europe, STTK 29 November 2012