The European Parliament has approved an 'important resolution to promote in Europe the minimum wage. The text adopted on 20 October 2010 with an overwhelming majority can be a point of reference for anyone who considers it essential to provide assistance towards the promotion of the dignity of life and decent work for all s Send it provides a meeting point between various options that concern the relationship between work and income and between contractual instruments and regulatory measures. Unfortunately, the European Parliament does not have the power to propose laws, moreover, was guilty dismissed for just two votes, the amendment requiring Parliament to seek a directive to the European Commission.
The reasons which call for such a directive are very present in the arguments of the resolution. There is the need to prevent wage dumping that affects Europe, to ensure a dignified existence to an unfortunately growing number of people at risk of poverty and social exclusion and poor working men and women s; to resolve a fair and reasonable questions of income and welfare for those who live in situations of insecurity and unemployment.
course, income minimum is only one of the measures needed to tackle a crisis increasingly emphasized that endangers the entire population of Europe: the minimum wage should be integrated into a universal network of public services and basic rights. But it is a measure that can have an important positive impact, allowing at least the protection of "vital minimum", in accordance with the provisions of art. 34 of the Charter of the EU.
has recently been launched and the regulation that makes possible the realization of the initiatives proposed by citizens, which makes it possible to gather one million signatures in at least seven European countries, to advance the request to issue guidelines on topics under existing treaties by submitting their own text, the European Commission is obliged to consider and must decide on which.
it seems important to work on a similar initiative is built around the minimum wage, taking as its point of reference to the resolution adopted by the EP. It would be a concrete and constructive way to give a European dimension to the political agenda and to propose concrete in the image of a Europe of social cohesion and solidarity and not just in the markets.
Since the initiative at European level is necessary to create the links in the member countries. There are networks and associations that are considering and acting on these issues. Our task would be to facilitate, among others, to achieve this goal. To this end, we could propose some sort of coalition of purpose.
Peppe Allegri, Enzo Bernardo, Fausto Bertinotti, Bronzini Papi, Alberto Burgio, Loris Campetti, Luca Casarini, Bruno Casati, Paolo Cento, Celeste Costantino, Titti Di Salvo, Tommaso Fattori, Marco Furfaro, Alfonso Gianni, Sandro Gobetti, Betty Leone, Eugenio Melandri, Roberto Musacchio, Oggionni Simone, Gianni Rinaldini, Dominic Rizzuti, Franco Russo, Luca Santini, Patrizia Sentinelli, Rachel Serino, Bruno Steri, Gigi Sullo, Nicola Vallinoto.
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