{"id":1258,"date":"2024-09-30T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unieuropaconference.org\/news\/we-support-essential-workers-demands-for-a-reform-of-eu-public-procurement-rules\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T13:47:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T12:47:46","slug":"we-support-essential-workers-demands-for-a-reform-of-eu-public-procurement-rules","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/unieuropaconference.org\/news\/we-support-essential-workers-demands-for-a-reform-of-eu-public-procurement-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"“We support essential workers\u2019 demands for a reform of EU public procurement rules”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We, economists from around the world, support essential workers\u2019 and their trade unions\u2019 demands for a reform of EU public procurement rules that strengthens collective bargaining and improves working conditions in labour-intensive sectors such as cleaning, security and food services.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Covid-19 pandemic underscored the critical economic value of outsourced workers in sectors such as cleaning, security, and food services. Yet, despite the essential workers who kept our communities safe, clean and fed during the pandemic\u2019s darkest days, they are frequently perceived by both public and private entities as mere cost factors rather than as crucial investments into society\u2019s health, safety and well-being. A year and a half after the WHO declared the end of Covid-19 as a global health emergency, the end of the social emergency that many essential workers face has not yet arrived.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, many essential workers are migrant workers \u2014 mostly women \u2014 and face the threat of a growing far right that uses its political power not just to push against progressive economic policies but to further stratify the labour market along lines of nationality, religion, gender, and sexual orientation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, essential workers and their trade unions are mobilising to Brussels to push for a progressive reform of the EU Public Procurement Directives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Public procurement, or the contracting of private firms by public authorities to deliver goods and services, amounts to two trillion Euros, around 14 per cent of the European Union\u2019s GDP. Millions of workers are employed in the EU through these contracts, and standards created through public procurement influence pay and working conditions throughout the private sector. But current procurement practices \u2014 with their dominant focus on the lowest price in tenders \u2014 create market conditions that allow bidders to disregard social criteria. The EU Public Procurement Directive\u2019s emphasis on price as the primary award criterion marginalises other critical factors, such as labour rights and fair working conditions, which are essential for sustainable economic growth and good jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n

As European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a revision to public procurement guidelines in her next mandate, we support essential workers and European trade unions in their fight to ensure fair labour standards, strengthen collective bargaining and workers\u2019 voice within these outsourced services. And we will work together with all those progressive forces seeking to improve the livelihoods and working conditions of workers regardless of their status, identity and occupation.<\/span><\/p>\n

We therefore support the labour movement\u2019s mobilisation to \u201cstop the race to the bottom\u201d in public procurement taking place in Brussels on 1 October 2024. Collective bargaining and union rights are a fundamental pillar of equitable labour markets. It is imperative that its principles are integrated and enforced across all public procurement processes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Signed,<\/p>\n

Thomas Piketty <\/b>– Professor, EHESS, Paris School of Economics<\/p>\n

Isabella Weber<\/b> – Associate Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst<\/p>\n

Jason Hickel<\/b> – Professor, ICTA-UAB, Visiting Senior Fellow, London School of Economics<\/p>\n

Jayati Ghosh <\/b>– Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst<\/p>\n

Michael Heine <\/b>– Professor Emeritus of Economics, HTW Berlin, University of Applied Sciences<\/p>\n

Ann Pettifor <\/b>– Director, Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME); Member, Scottish Government’s Just Transition Commission<\/p>\n

L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Andor <\/b>– Economist, Secretary General, Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and former European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion<\/p>\n

Michael Reich <\/b>– Professor of Economics & Chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamic, University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n

Benjamin Braun <\/b>– Assistant Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science<\/p>\n

Odd N. Hanssen <\/b>– Economist, United Nations Development Program (UNDP)<\/p>\n

Giorgos Galanis <\/b>– Senior Lecturer in Applied Economics, Queen Mary University of London<\/p>\n

Maria Nikolaidi <\/b>– Associate Professor in Economics, University of Greenwich<\/p>\n

Cecilia Rikap <\/b>– Head of Research and Associate Professor in Economics, University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose<\/p>\n

Liam Campling <\/b>– Professor of International Business and Development, Queen Mary University of London<\/p>\n

C\u00e9dric Durand<\/b> – Economist, Professor of Political Economy, University of Geneva<\/p>\n

Roberto Veneziani <\/b>– Professor of Economics, Queen Mary University of London<\/p>\n

Paul Sweeney<\/b> – Economist, Former Chief Economist, Irish Congress of Trade Unions<\/p>\n

Mike Haynes <\/b>– Professor of International Political Economy, Business School, University of Wolverhampton<\/p>\n

David Adler<\/b> – Political Economist, Co-General Coordinator, Progressive International<\/p>\n

Giorgio Ricchiuti <\/b>– Professor of Political Economy, University of Florence<\/p>\n

Yannis Dafermos <\/b>– Reader in Economics, SOAS University of London<\/p>\n

Heikki Patom\u00e4ki <\/b>– Professor of Global Political Economy, University of Helsinki<\/p>\n

Giorgos Gouzoulis <\/b>– Associate Professor in Human Resource Management, Queen Mary University of London<\/p>\n

Francisco Lou\u00e7\u00e3 <\/b>– Economist, Politician, Professor of Economics, Lisbon School of Economics and Management<\/p>\n

Ourania Dimakou <\/b>– Lecturer in Economics, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos<\/p>\n

Leonardo Bargigli <\/b>– Associate Professor of Political Economy, University of Florence<\/p>\n

Michalis Nikiforos<\/b> – Associate Professor of Political Economy, University of Geneva<\/p>\n

Engelbert Stockhammer <\/b>– Professor of International Political Economy, King\u2019s College London<\/p>\n

Ois\u00edn Gilmore <\/b>– Economist, Think Tank for Action on Social Change (TASC)<\/p>\n

Karsten Kohler <\/b>– Associate Professor in Economics, University of Leeds<\/p>\n

Trevor Evans <\/b>– Professor, Institute for International Political Economy, Berlin School of Economics and Law<\/p>\n

Hansj\u00f6rg Herr <\/b>– Professor, Institute for International Political Economy, Berlin School of Economics and Law<\/p>\n

Christoph Scherrer<\/b> – Associate Fellow, Global Labour University<\/b><\/p>\n

Romas Lazutka <\/b>– Professor Emeritus, Vilnius University<\/p>\n

Michelle O\u2019Sullivan <\/b>– Lecturer in Industrial Relations, University of Limerick<\/p>\n

Christian R. Proa\u00f1o <\/b>– Professor, University of Bamberg<\/p>\n

Thomas Sauer <\/b>– Professor Emeritus of Economics, Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences, Jena<\/p>\n

Marcella Corsi <\/b>– Professor, Sapienza University of Rome<\/p>\n

Helena P\u00e9rez Ni\u00f1o <\/b>– International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam<\/p>\n

Alessandra Mezzadri <\/b>– Reader in Global Development and Political Economy, SOAS Anupam Das University of London<\/p>\n

Marusca De Castris <\/b>– Associate Professor of Economic Statistics, Roma Tre University<\/p>\n

Caroline Hambloch<\/b> – Doctor or Economics, Humboldt University Berlin<\/p>\n

Susan Newman<\/b> – Professor of Economics, Open University<\/p>\n

Steve Keen <\/b>– Honorary Professor, University College London<\/p>\n

Hielke Van Doorslaer <\/b>– University of Ghent & Minerva Think Tank<\/p>\n

Sara Stevano<\/b> – Development & Feminist Political Economist, Senior Lecturer in Economics, SOAS University of London<\/p>\n

Irene van Staveren <\/b>– Professor of Pluralist Development Economics, Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam<\/p>\n

Gerry McCartney<\/b> – Professor of Wellbeing Economy, University of Glasgow<\/p>\n

Stephanie Seguino <\/b>– Professor Emerita of Economics, University of Vermont<\/p>\n

Julie Metta <\/b>– Postdoctoral Researcher in Circular Economy, KULeuven & Tilburg University\u00a0<\/p>\n

Olga Alonso-Villar <\/b>– Professor of Economics, University of Vigo<\/p>\n

Karin Sch\u00f6npflug<\/b> – Economics & Researcher, FH Campus Wien<\/p>\n

Grace Blakeley <\/b>– Economist and author<\/p>\n

Helena Mart\u00ednez-Cabrera<\/b> – Phd Candidate and Research Assistant in Economic Development and Regional Integration, University of Santiago de Compostela<\/p>\n

Kanchana N Ruwanpura <\/b>– Professor at the Human Geography Department, University of Gothenburg<\/p>\n

Alexandre Abreu <\/b>– Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, ISEG, University of Lisbon<\/p>\n

G\u00fcnseli Berik <\/b>– Professor Emerita, University of Utah<\/p>\n

Samanthi J. Gunawardana <\/b>– Senior Lecturer Gender and Development, School of Social Science, Monash University<\/p>\n

Roberto Ruiz Blum <\/b>– Professor, University of Guayaquil<\/p>\n

Vicente Ferreira <\/b>– Professor, Sapienza University of Rome<\/p>\n

Coral del R\u00edo Otero<\/b> – Professor, University of Vigo<\/p>\n

Tolga T\u00f6ren <\/b>– Research Associate, University of Kassel<\/p>\n

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven <\/b>– Associate Professor in International Development, King\u2019s College London<\/p>\n

N\u00edall Glynn <\/b>– Economist, Founder of the Working Class Economists Group, Researcher at UNITE the Union<\/p>\n

Dirk Ehnts<\/b> – Lecturer, Torrens University, Adelaide<\/p>\n

Ozlem Onaran <\/b>– Professor of Economics, University of Greenwich<\/p>\n

Mark Weisbrot <\/b>– Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research<\/p>\n

Miriam Rehm <\/b>– Professor of Socio-Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen<\/p>\n

Narender Thakur <\/b>– Professor of Economics, Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, University of Delhi<\/p>\n

Arthur MacEwan <\/b>– Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston<\/p>\n

Eduardo Strachman <\/b>– Associate Professor of Economics, S\u00e3o Paulo State University<\/p>\n

John Miller <\/b>– Professor of Economics, Wheaton College<\/p>\n

Venkatesh Athreya <\/b>– Economist & Activist, Tamil Nadu<\/p>\n

Gustavo Indart <\/b>– Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Toronto<\/p>\n

Mary C. King <\/b>– Emerita Professor of Economics, Portland State University<\/p>\n

Mritiunjoy Mohanty <\/b>– Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal<\/p>\n

Julie Cai<\/b> – Economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research<\/p>\n

PN (Raja) Junankar <\/b>– Emeritus Professor, Western Sydney University, Honorary Professor, UNSW Canberra<\/p>\n

Alan Aja <\/b>– Professor, Brooklyn College, City University of New York<\/p>\n

Lara Merling <\/b>– Senior Research Fellow, Center for Economic and Policy Research<\/p>\n

Martial Toniotti <\/b>– PHD Candidate and Teaching Assistant & Economist, UCLouvain<\/p>\n

Eileen Appelbaum <\/b>– Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research<\/p>\n

Jim Campen <\/b>– Professor of Economics, Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Boston<\/p>\n

Marcos Vasconcelos <\/b>– Associate professor of Economics, Florida State University<\/p>\n

Armine Yalnizyan <\/b>– Economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers<\/p>\n

Gerald Friedman<\/b> – Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst<\/p>\n

Garry Sran <\/b>– Economist and Researcher, Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario<\/p>\n

Anupam Das <\/b>– Professor of Economics, Mount Royal University<\/p>\n

Audrey Laurin-Lamothe <\/b>– Associate Professor, Business and Society program, Department of Social Science, York University<\/p>\n

Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi <\/b>– Professor of Economics, Winston-Salem State University, and former Chief Economist, City and County of San Francisco<\/p>\n

Michelle Holder <\/b>– Associate Professor of Economics, John Jay College, City University of New York<\/p>\n

Gabor Scheiring <\/b>– Assistant Professor, Georgetown University Qatar<\/p>\n

Patrick L. Mason<\/b> – Professor Economics, University of Massachusetts – Amherst<\/p>\n

Brenda Wyss <\/b>– Professor of Economics, Wheaton College<\/p>\n

Louis-Philippe Rochon <\/b>– Professor of Economics – Laurentian University<\/p>\n

Jim Stanford <\/b>– Director, Centre for Future Work<\/p>\n

Mario Seccareccia <\/b>– Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Ottawa<\/p>\n

Sem Vandekerckhove <\/b>– Senior Researcher, HIVA-KU Leuven<\/p>\n

Sam de Muijnck <\/b>– Director, Centre for Economy Studies and Our New Economy<\/p>\n

Stefano Filauro <\/b>– Post-doctoral researcher, Bocconi University\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brent Bleys <\/b>– Associate Professor of Ecological Economics, Ghent University<\/p>\n

Thomas Marois <\/b>– Professor of Political Economy and Canada Research Chair, McMaster University<\/p>\n

Sotiria Theodoropoulou <\/b>– Head of Unit European Economic, Employment and Social Policies, European Trade Union Institute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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