Businesses ‘risking social rights’

GLOBAL business interests are jeopardising social rights, SIPTU’s biannual conference in Galway heard yesterday.

SIPTU researcher John McCartney told delegates that far too many government decisions in Europe were being made on the basis of what is good for companies rather than what would be in the interests of society and its citizens.

“Multi-nationals are using their clout to get national governments to try and minimise the effect of EU legislation,” he said. “It is compromising the ability of social Europe to make directives stick at national level,” Mr McCartney said.