EUROPE’S employers, and their accomplices in the judiciary, were not waiting for the latest economic crisis and recession to start the assault on workers’ rights and conditions. It is proceeding at more than one level.

In May this year termination notices were served on 19 Kashmiri/Pakistani seamen working on board Birger Jarl, a Swedish cruise ship. They were given three-moths grace. The ship owners, Roderia Allandia, claimed the redundancies were necessary because under new EU legislation it could not receive financial support from the EU if it employed non-EU workers. This seems in line with what British ministers have been saying about restricting non-EU immigrants.

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