Wanja Lundby-Wedin , discours d'investiture à la CES

Wanja Lundby-Wedin a prononcé son premier discours de Présidente de la Confédération Européenne des Syndicats (CES,ETUC).
Elle a dénoncée la pensée unique qui prétend que l'Europe n'aurait plus les moyens de s'offir une protection sociale aussi élevée face à la compétition internationale. Elle a souligné que le développement de la protection sociale était l'un des moteurs de la compétitivité économique.
La fléxisécurité, tant vantée,suppose un équilibre entre sécurité et flexibilité. La sécurité des parcours professionnels est la condition de la mise en oeuvre des adaptations d'organisation de la production.
Le prix d'une économie européenne plus forte ne doit pas être payé uniquement par les salariés. Il faut partager les gains et les coûts d'une économie plus compétitive.
Elle souhaite que les syndicats européens soient consultés sur les politiques d'immigration et d'accueil des réfugiés. La protection des travailleurs sans papiers en développement dans toute l'Europe est une de ses priorités.


 Wanja Lundby-Wedin elected President of the ETUC

At the Congress of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), The LO President Ms. Wanja Lundby-Wedin, was elected president of the ETUC the 22:nd of May 2007. She will thus become the first women president of the ETUC as well as the first ETUC president from Sweden. LO became member of the ETUC when the organisation was founded in l973, and today ETUC organizes trade union organizations representing 60 million blue-collar workers, white-collar workers and university graduates in 35 countries.
After having been elected, Wanja Lundby-Wedin gave a speech of thanks in which she accentuated the need of a strong European trade union organisation which can intensify the welfare development in Europe.

At the same time, she questioned those who are of the opinion that to develop Europe economically, the welfare needs to be less generous, and she underlined that solid welfare systems facilitate the conversion to a more competitive economy.

- Everybody seems to praise flexicurity, but not everybody has accepted that this implies a labour market in which there is a balance between flexicurity and security. But without security, we will never accept flexicurity. If that will be the case, people will hang on to the jobs available as long as they can, and the pace of conversion will slow down. This is not positive to the European economy but it is typical. The price for a stronger European economy cannot be paid by the employees who will be periodically jobless. We must all, jointly, pay our share of the profits as well as the costs of a more competitive economy in Europe.

Wanja Lundby-Wedin was also critical to the inadequate migration and refugee policy of the European Union and underlined the importance of the union’s commitment to these issues.

- Today many people live in Europe without residence permits. They are forced to live on the fringe of society where they have no protection and can easily be exploited. The union ought to find ways of protecting them, and possibly organize the. Then, not only the conditions of these people would be improved, but also the economy of the black informal sector, which these people have to rely on in order to survive, would be dented.

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