«The newest Flash Eurobarometer 398 focuses on working conditions and was published on the same day - 28 April - as a Conference of the European Commission
on the same topic. The Commission announced that this survey was
carried out in the 28 Member States in early April 2014 and that 26,571
respondents from different social and demographic groups were
interviewed via telephone (landline and mobile phone) in their mother
tongue.
The survey reveals that “more than 80% of respondents in Denmark,
Luxembourg, Finland and The Netherlands consider working conditions in
their country to be good” – so a Commission press release states.
The Eurobarometer poll tries to give the impression that an
overwhelming majority is satisfied and bad working conditions are an
exception. Indeed some responses could support the impression that
workers are happy with their working conditions. If you read it
carefully, however, it shows that this is not the case.
(...) Then the supporter of a change of course should promote some arguments
against the impression that everything is fine in the best of all
possible European worlds – and against the propaganda that there is no alternative.»
