Organisers of a European Citizens’ Initiative that seeks to halt sales of public water utilities say they have gathered one million signatures from across Europe, becoming the first such group to do so since the grass-roots efforts were launched last spring.
Together with its three Belgian affiliates (CSC, FGTB and CGSLB), the ETUC launched a collective complaint in 2009 before the European Committee of Social Rights of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, against the practice of judicial intervention into the exercise of the right to strike.