rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/form/my-pledge-using-public-procurement-to-ensure-dignity-at-work?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-form-area-my-pledge-using-public-procurement-to-ensure-dignity-at-work' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> UNI Global Union https://actionnetwork.org/groups/uni-global-union https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/share_options/facebook_images/000/307/036/original/Call_centre_EN.png Since the Covid-19 crisis started last year, care workers, cleaners, call centre workers, logistics and postal workers, security guards and all essential workers have been risking their lives to keep our society going. At the same time, they are among the lowest paid and most precarious workers in the EU. Many of them work in publicly procured projects. Yet, some of the companies they work for have been allowed to suppress their' say at work. In this way, these workers have been cut out of a fair share of the wealth they are so essential to creating. Meanwhile other companies are forced to also drive down workers’ pay and conditions in order to compete. Public funding must not be complicit in fuelling this race to the bottom. Public contracts should not go to companies that seek a competitive advantage by suppressing workers' say and driving poverty wages and bad working conditions. Decent pay and working conditionsare in the public interest. As a Member of the European Parliament, I pledge to work towards ensuring that companies that refuse to bargain with their workers or implement collective agreements be prevented from receiving public contracts. I support the campaign to change EU public procurement rules to provide a European framework that is conducive to achieve this end. https://actionnetwork.org/forms/public-procurement-en/