From the preamble of our by-laws establishing G2004 as an EU civil service staff association, August 2012:
” Generation 2004 commits itself to […] b) strive for the implementation of the principle of “equal recognition for equal work”, including substantially equal professional and career perspectives, both financial and non-financial”
From the speech to the European Parliament of Commission President-Designate Jean-Claude Juncker, 15.7.2014, ” A N E W ST A R T F O R E UR OPE”, Political Guidelines for the next European Commission, Section 4 (” A Deeper and Fairer Market with a Strengthened Industrial Base)”:
“In our Union, the same work at the same place should be remunerated in the same manner.”
To Mr Juncker: Our heartfelt thanks for this major acknowledgment; we wish you the best for your coming mandate as our President and we wholly commit to support your action in this highly important field. Welcome to the European Commission, we look to you with new hope, but you need to have a serious talk with your human resources as soon as possible. Whatever they might tell you, the situation is grave and urgent Mr. President!
To Mr Barroso: Over 10 years, locked up in your ivory tower, you have treated Commission staff with disdain if not ignoring us (particularly post-2004) all together. You will be best remembered for transforming the average Commission official from a highly-valued human professional to an expendable number. If the 2004 reform in itself was bad, its implementation under your administration has transformed the EU civil service into a mess of highly-divided, frustrated and unmotivated individuals or categories thereof. Please, do ensure to include all this in your “handover file” to Mr Juncker, it’s the least you owe us!