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February 2009
Up until the December
EU summit, in the Dáil Éireann, there seemed
to be nothing about workers' rights in relation to reasons
why the people of Ireland voted against the EU treaty. The
government and the European media only mentioned abortion,
neutrality and the desire to keep a Commissioner for Ireland.
But maybe the Irish unions
did get through. Just after the EU summit, the Premier Brian
Cowan said "the [European] Union agreed that our concerns
be responded to satisfactorily, including through the use
of legally binding guarantees. While the detail is yet to
follow, our partners are clear about the nature of those guarantees.
The [European] Union also agreed on the need to confirm the
importance of issues such as workers' rights."
This would seem to present
an opportunity across the EU to press for delivery of effective
legally binding guarantees to confirm workers' rights, which
confront the problems created by the 4 ECJ cases.
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