EU Plan to Deport 100s of Thousands of Refugees Slammed Published April 28th, 2021 - 06:54 GMT
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New plans by the European Commission to deport hundreds of thousands of refugees from the EU are met with criticism from civil society organizations.
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The EU s coast guard agency, Frontex, is accused of using aggressive tactics to prevent refugees from reaching the bloc.
Frontex is on course to receive greater power to deport up to half-a-million refugees who have had their applications for asylum in the EU rejected. Frontex is under investigation over allegations that it has aggressively pushed back refugees trying to reach the 27-country bloc.
Britain's workplace safety inspectorate has been hollowed out since the Tories came to power with the number of inspections "falling off a cliff" in the intervening decade, unions have warned. A new analysis shows how unprepared the UK was to assess workplaces as Covid-secure during the pandemic, with a 32 per cent fall in the number of inspectors over the period. Last summer ahead of the second wave experts like the Independent Scientific.
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Adrien Thomas shows how interorganisational bargaining with companies and employers’ organisations strongly influenced European trade unions’ negotiating positions on the latest reform of the EU Emissions Trading System.
Trade unions have a sizeable presence in the high-emission sectors most impacted by decarbonisation such as manufacturing, extractive industries and power generation. In a recent study, I analysed the engagement of steel trade unions with the latest reform of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), a carbon cap-and-trade scheme that sets binding emissions reduction targets for industrial facilities, power plants and intra-EU flights. Steel producers, which account for four to seven per cent of the EU’s CO2 emissions, have been particularly vocal in arguing that tighter regulations would make them less competitive and lead to increased offshore steel production.
It’s time for Europe to rethink our democratic and social models for a post-pandemic world
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There are two forthcoming events that are worth paying attention to: the European Social Summit on 7 May and the G20 in November 2021 in Italy. Important decisions have to be adopted while the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on our societies and economies.
The advancement of the vaccination campaign suggests that the time has come for us to plan an exit strategy from the Covid-19 economic framework and to step into a new normal. In these turbulent times, it is difficult for many to imagine what this will look like.
URGENT and permanent improvements to social security provision are needed across the European Union, trade unions warned today as the coronavirus pandemic forces countries to introduce emergency reforms.
Research by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) found that 24 out of the neoliberal bloc’s 27 member states had increased the value, duration or eligibility conditions of unemployment benefits or income support.
The study found that while the reforms implemented during the crisis have been positive, they were temporary measures and some have already ended. Self-employed workers were left largely unprotected and unable to access social security provisions.
“This abrupt health crisis underlined acute gaps in social protection systems,” the ETUI report concluded.