Golden Dawn MEP Lampros Fountoulis on workers' rights - Video

27/09/2016 22:49

During a discussion in the plenary of the European Parliament in Strasbourg and in the subject titled «Equality in work», the floor was given to Golden Dawn’s MEP, Lampros Fountoulis. He expressed the view that all workers must have equal rights, regardless being men or women, or having a disability. But he closed his speech with the remark that the first and greatest offend to the workers’ rights is the huge percentages of unemployment.

 

Follows the full text of the intervention:

 

I think that we all share the belief that for work of equal amount and equal quality anyone must receive the same salary. Also to have the same general rights, whether is a man or woman, or whether having or not some kind of disability.

The important thing for us is to be able to create the needed circumstances so even people who had an accident or were born with a disability to have the possibility of competing with others in the job market. They must have guaranteed access to a job position that will allow them to live with dignity and not to be economically depended from others, wherever this is possible.

In any case, we cannot guarantee job equality if we have not first secure the jobs themselves. You know very well the huge unemployment problem that we have in many European countries and particularly in Greece.

When we have so few job positions, the capital will always exploit the workers. We have to create those conditions which will allow to anyone to have a job, a factor which by itself will lead to equality between workers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

During a discussion in the plenary of the European Parliament in Strasbourg and in the subject titled «Equality in work», the floor was given to Golden Dawn’s MEP, Lampros Fountoulis. He expressed the view that all workers must have equal rights, regardless being men or women, or having a disability. But he closed his speech with the remark that the first and greatest offend to the workers’ rights is the huge percentages of unemployment.
 
Follows the full text of the intervention:
 
I think that we all share the belief that for work of equal amount and equal quality anyone must receive the same salary. Also to have the same general rights, whether is a man or woman, or whether having or not some kind of disability.
The important thing for us is to be able to create the needed circumstances so even people who had an accident or were born with a disability to have the possibility of competing with others in the job market. They must have guaranteed access to a job position that will allow them to live with dignity and not to be economically depended from others, wherever this is possible.
In any case, we cannot guarantee job equality if we have not first secure the jobs themselves. You know very well the huge unemployment problem that we have in many European countries and particularly in Greece.
When we have so few job positions, the capital will always exploit the workers. We have to create those conditions which will allow to anyone to have a job, a factor which by itself will lead to equality between workers.
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