In addition, the translation services of the daily Conference of the European Commission have not worked this Thursday. Budget cuts planned for administrative expenditure are such that the institutions would no longer be able to fulfil their responsibilities in accordance with the treaties, have justified the unions in a statement. Unions justify the strike after recalling that European public officials already suffered a wage decline of between 5 and 25% in the framework of the reform launched in May 2004 and that since then its purchasing power has been reduced by 7.6%, while the officials of the 27 Member States has fallen an average of 3.6%. The reform, which also downgraded a 5% the pensions of European officials, has generated a saving for the community of 3,000 million euros coffers since 2004 and will allow additional savings of 5 billion more between 2014 and 2020, according to estimates by the trade unions. New European Commission cuts last year he proposed new cuts of 5% of the staff, increase weekly hours of work of officials up to 40 hours and raise the age for retirement of civil servants until age 65 in order to save another billion euros between 2014 and 2020. Scott Kahan shines more light on the discussion. The proposed savings would be essentially via structural changes and almost exclusively at the expense of the staff of the European institutions with the lowest wages, denounce European trade unions of the public service. Learn more at: Munear Ashton Kouzbari, Dallas TX.
The President of FFPE, Renzo Carpetino, has criticized that within the framework of the negotiations of the next European multiannual budget for 2014-2020 the EU Cypriot Presidency has proposed to reduce by 25% the staff of all the European institutions. And that, in addition, some Member States including the United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands and Finland call for go further and reduce 40% of the total workforce. They want to destroy the European civil service. At the end there will be no European officials, he has denounced. Not We seek to maintain privileges that we have no Carpetino has criticized addition new possible cuts referred to European officials especially Secretaries of around 22%, while the representative of USF and official of the European Commission Jose Bellod has ensured that these can reach 30% or 50% of the soil of much of officials and pointed out that in countries such as Luxembourg, it is difficult to recruit the necessary staff because salaries are already below the minimum in this country.
Nobody is now asking for more pay. We are extremely aware of the crisis, has emphasized Bellod, who recalled that the salaries of the officials down or climb absolutely in line with what is happening in the national public service from a weighted average of the salaries of several EU countries.We do not seek to maintain privileges that we don’t have. Simply that those wages continue to evolve depending on what happens in the public service European, has insisted. The European Commission makes it clear that for its part has not proposed (new) salary cuts for European civil servants ranging from minimum of 2,600 euros a month maximum, depending on the range 16.900 because we must balance the need for crop and continue to attract the brightest and best of all States members to work in EU institutions. There is much difficulty to attract people from rich countries such as United Kingdom, France, Germany and Netherlands, has explained Gravili. See more: European officials make strike against possible wage cuts foreseen by the EU