{"id":12069,"date":"2023-12-11T15:10:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T14:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/?post_type=news&p=12069"},"modified":"2023-12-11T15:12:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T14:12:33","slug":"uni-to-join-thousands-to-march-against-austerity-and-for-a-fair-deal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/news\/uni-to-join-thousands-to-march-against-austerity-and-for-a-fair-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"UNI to join thousands to march against austerity and for a fair deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNI Europa will join thousands of workers from across Europe who will march 12 December to the European institutions in Brussels in protest at plans to begin austerity 2.0 programme from next year.
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\r\nThe demonstration called by the European Trade Union Confederation<\/a> (ETUC) is part of a wider campaign for a “fair deal for working people” and comes as ministers and MEPs are in negotiations over a reform of the EU\u2019s economic governance rules.
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\r\nUnder the current draft proposal, 14 member states will be forced to cut 45 billion Euro from their budgets next year alone, according to ETUC calculations based on European Commission data.<\/p>\r\n

The reform comes after the previous rules were suspended in 2020, through the activation of the general escape clause of the EU\u2019s Stability and Growth Pact, to deal with the economic fallout from the pandemic.<\/p>\r\n

New rules are due to enter into force on January 1 but there has so far been no agreement on what they should be. Under the current proposal, member states with a deficit above 3% of GDP will have to reduce their budget deficit by a minimum of 0.5% of GDP every year.<\/p>\r\n

That would lead to fewer jobs, lower wages, stretched public services and leave most EU member states unable to make the investments needed to meet the EU\u2019s own social and climate targets.<\/p>\r\n

New research on the political costs of austerity also shows the far-right is the main beneficiary of the type of fiscal policies being proposed.<\/p>\r\n

The ETUC and its affiliates will use the demonstration tomorrow to call for:<\/p>\r\n