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to hold regular consultations with EU labour representatives, the head of Europe’s largest trade union confederation has said, in an apparent attempt to assuage workers’ fears over Brussels's increasingly pro-business agenda.</strong> </p> <p> Esther Lynch, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, told Euractiv that Commissioner for Economy Valdis Dombrovskis agreed to conduct periodic “workers’ reality checks” where labour groups’ views on key EU initiatives can be aired and discussed. </p> <p> She added that the commitment, made during a private meeting between Lynch and Dombrovskis on Wednesday, was “vague on details” but could help ease concerns that the Commission’s push to slash red rape will ultimately weaken workers’ rights. </p> <p> “What I understood from the conversation is that [Dombrovskis] gave a commitment that he will provide a real, genuine opportunity for workers to give their reality check, and that he won't just listen to the CEOs and their reality check,” said Lynch, whose organisation represents 45 million European workers. </p> <p> She added that she was “encouraged” by Dombrovskis’s acknowledgement during the meeting that there is “a difference in the reality check that you would hear from a CEO and what you would hear from a worker”. </p> <p> However, she warned that the consultations cannot be a “one-off” or “box-ticking” exercise, and that the ETUC will “be following up with [Dombrovskis] to get the details of exactly how the commitment that [he] gave to listen to workers” will be “put into practice”. </p> <p> A spokesperson for Dombrovskis’s cabinet declined to comment. 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