"It is high time that the European Commission realised the urgency to deliver a sound industrial strategy for Europe. The Commission's annual work programme, which is currently being drafted, must be adapted accordingly", declared Luc Triangle, General Secretary of industriAll Europe. With our experience of working with many different branches of activities in the manufacturing, mining and energy industries, industriAll Europe insists on the need to develop strategic plans for each sector. We remind the European Commission of its commitment to increase the share of industry up to 20% of Europe's GDP by 2020. IndustriAll Europe expects concrete initiatives modelled on our roadmap for re-industrialising Europe and ensuring the future of European industrial employment and sites to be taken swiftly in order for this target to be reached.
Support to EP’s call for reindustrialisation and socially responsible restructuring
Friday 07 October 2016
Last Wednesday, the European Parliament adopted, by a large majority, a resolution calling for a European reindustrialisation policy in light of the recent Caterpillar and Alstom cases. IndustriAll Europe, which has been fighting for years against deindustrialisation and for the anticipation of change and socially responsible restructuring, urges the European Commission to take the MEPs’ numerous valid demands into consideration.
IndustriAll Europe campaigns for stronger rights and new instruments to ensure a better anticipation of change in multinational companies and the delivery of appropriate solutions for each and every worker concerned by restructuring. "We thus welcome MEPs' calls on the Commission to consult the social partners on the need to revise EU legislation on collective dismissals and European Works Councils", stated Sylvain Lefebvre, Deputy General Secretary of industriAll Europe. "In addition, we request that the Commission does not delay in proposing the long overdue binding instrument on the anticipation and management of restructuring that European workers throughout the supply chain so desperately need".
Article written by Walter Van den Bossche