Reacting to the Clean Industrial Deal announced by the European Commission, the ETUC is calling for the measures focussed on workers to be urgently brought forward. An average of 500 jobs a day are being lost and even more threatened. According to the ETUC, just transition measures are urgently needed to save those jobs and must be moved to the top of the list, not left as an add-on to be implemented at the end of the year. Rapid intervention when there is a threat of restructuring and measures to anticipate change are needed now and delaying them until December, as the deal suggests, would be too late. The current situation of crisis calls for an exceptional wave of investments including a SURE 2.0 mechanism. Social conditionalities must apply so that workers benefit from the support to industry, including to promote collective bargaining.
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For more information, please contact Paul de Beer or Oana Ciuca, De Burcht (Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement) p.t.debeer@uva.nl or the Head of communications at the ETUI, Mehmet Koksal mkoksal@etui.org. For previous full issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit https://www.etui.org/Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter or consult the archive with all articles in our database at www.cbnarchive.eu.
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