The European Commission asked the unions for their opinion on the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2018. The Union Syndicale replies that the savings made in 2014 on the backs of colleagues will continue to grow in the future, and that there is no more margin without endangering the attractiveness of the institutions as employer. Union Syndicale also recalls that the recourse to precarious jobs must be massively reduced.
Bernd Loescher
President USF
To fulfil its role as a defender of staff, a trade union is obliged, first and foremost, to defend its credibility when this is compromised, and its own means of action when these are denied to it.
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