What Leila spoke about.

14

Dec

2021

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European framework for employees' participation rights and the revision of the European Works Council Directive (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, with regard to democracy at work, democracy at work at Amazon is like Santa Claus, it does not exist! In Poland, Magda, who is a member of the Health and Safety at Work Committee, was not allowed to join the Accident at Work Investigation Committee even though one of her colleagues had just died at work. Worse still, she was fired for spurious reas…

11

Nov

2021

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The first anniversary of the de facto abortion ban in Poland (B9-0543/2021, B9-0544/2021)

Mr President, ‘the child weighs 485 grams, so far because of the abortion law, I have to lie down. They will wait for him to die and otherwise I can – great – expect sepsis. That is the horror. My life is in danger and I have to wait. This is the message that Isabella, 30, a young Pole, sent to her mother. Isabella had to wait and she died. She died because doctors refused to give her an abortion …

18

Oct

2021

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Protecting workers from asbestos (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, Paul Dupeyroux died a year after doctors diagnosed him with asbestos cancer, mesothelioma. Paul grew up in Aulnay-sous-Bois, near Paris. Near his home there was a factory that crushed asbestos. A high chimney let out white dust, white dust that workers and residents have been breathing in for decades. For 19 years, Paul breathed in asbestos dust wi…

7

Oct

2021

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The state law relating to abortion in Texas, USA

Madam President, seriously, ladies and gentlemen, is this still the case? We are still debating whether or not women have the right to dispose of their bodies? Are we still hearing MEPs – particularly on this side of the Chamber – opposing the right to abortion? Seriously? It is your friends in Texas who have tried to ban women from having an abortion after six weeks, even though they are not yet …

15

Sep

2021

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Reversing the negative social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, this morning, the President of the European Commission announced that 2022 will be the year of youth and, in this new school year, returning students will be delighted to learn about it, who are suffering from the social consequences of COVID-19, with huge rates of unemployment and poverty. While in France, President Macron felt it was time to cut …

13

Sep

2021

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Fair working conditions, rights and social protection for platform workers - New forms of employment linked to digital development (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, we must put an end to a fraudulent situation where platforms present themselves as mere intermediaries between a self-employed worker and a customer, when in reality they decide on tariffs, they decide on sanctions and they decide on working methods, all without fulfilling their obligations as employers. To remedy this, Parliament makes a proposal in this report. The…

8

Jul

2021

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Labour rights in Bangladesh (debate)

Mr President, while some have their heads in the moon, others have their hands in the sludge. Dear colleagues, Jeff Bezos is leaving his position as CEO of Amazon to focus on his passion: space tourism. So when he puts his clothes in his suitcase, I hope he will have a thought for the workers of his subcontractors in Bangladesh who make clothes for Amazon. These workers who were on strike on May 2…

6

Jul

2021

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Connecting Europe Facility - Streamlining measures for the realisation of the TEN-T - Railway safety and signalling: Assessing the state of play of the ERTMS deployment (debate)

Mr. Speaker, ladies and gentlemen, just a week ago, the thermometer in the village of Lytton, Canada, stood at 49.5°C. Not in the Sahara nor in the Middle East. No, no, 49.5°C in Canada! The cause of this extreme heat in a country also in the north is known to be climate change. Scientists have warned: what happened in Canada could very well happen again in Europe in the near future. With such a w…