Le segreterie generali di Fim, Femca, Fiom, Filctem, Uilm e Uiltec scrivono ai ministri delle Imprese e del Made in Italy (Adolfo Urso) e degli Affari europei (Tommaso Foti), oltreché alla Presidentessa della Commissione europea Ursula von der Leyen in merito al Clean Industrial Deal che verrà pubblicato il 26 febbraio.
I SINDACATI E IL CLEAN INDUSTRIAL DEAL
La lettera segue la mobilitazione europea messa in campo da tutti gli affiliati a IndustriAll Europe che il 5 febbraio scorso si sono riuniti a Bruxelles con un appello unitario chiedendo maggiori investimenti con condizionalità sociali, misure emergenziali come il fondo SURE per sostenere l’occupazione e una moratoria sui licenziamenti per impedire la desertificazione industriale.
QUALI INVESTIMENTI?
Fim, Femca, Fiom, Filctem, Uilm e Uiltec chiedono alla Commissione europea investimenti basati su:
1. Transizione giusta – diritti per tutti i lavoratori alla sicurezza del lavoro e alla formazione.
2. Un piano di investimenti europeo su scala, con condizionalità sociali legate a tutti gli aiuti pubblici all’industria, per assicurare garanzie di buoni posti di lavoro.
3. Diritto a un’energia pulita e accessibile per tutti, a casa e sul lavoro, con piani infrastrutturali e un controllo più̀ democratico.
4. Democrazia sul lavoro attraverso una contrattazione collettiva più forte e la partecipazione delle lavoratrici e dei lavoratori.
5. garanzie sulla catena di approvvigionamento globale che assicurino il commercio equo e solidale, pratiche di acquisto corrette e il rispetto dei diritti umani.
PIANO INDUSTRIALE SOSTENIBILE
La richiesta tende a rimettere lavoratrici e lavoratori, unitamente all’industria, al centro dell’agenda europea, questo attraverso un piano industriale sostenibile nel lungo termine, per la tutela ambientale, la creazione di posti di lavoro di qualità, la competitività delle imprese.
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To Ms Ursula von der Leyen – European Commission President
Adolfo Urso, Minister of “Imprese e del Made in Italy”
Tommaso Foti, Minister for European Affairs
Subject: EU Clean Industrial Deal
Dear President and Ministers,
On 5 February 2025, thousands of industrial workers and their trade unions within IndustriAll Europe came together in Brussels with a united call for more investment in good industrial jobs.
Deindustrialisation is becoming a reality. We’ve already lost 2.5 million manufacturing jobs since 2008. Nearly 100,000 jobs have been lost in the European steel industry alone. But the situation is getting worse – quickly. Over 90,000 job cuts have been announced in the automotive sector since June. Job cuts are stacking up across our industries in the chemicals, basic metals, textiles and basic materials. Not just in old industries but also in new green activities – in wind turbine manufacturing and in battery plants. Eurostat figures show 4.3 million jobs are at risk if action not taken.
Manufacturing underpins our welfare states and social cohesion. Europe can’t be prosperous or peaceful without good industrial jobs. Therefore, we urgently need a framework to halt deindustrialisation and safeguard workers and industrial capacity. This should include:
– A European program, like SURE in the pandemic, supporting a moratorium on forced redundancies and lost industrial capacity. Negotiated solutions for every worker and every site.
– An end to austerity by allowing a golden rule for social and clean transition investment in fiscal rules.
– All resources should be deployed, but with no blank cheques for business. Social conditionalities should be attached every euro of support.
– Use of public procurement and funds to boost demand supporting European jobs through social criteria.
– Act to tackle overcapacities, unfair trade and dumping to ensure industrial resilience in global markets.
On 26 February, the European Commission will publish its Clean Industrial Deal. The Draghi Report is clear on the scale of investment needed – we need a well-financed European investment plan alongside. This industrial and investment deal must be a deal between working people, industry and government. To achieve this, it must be based on investment in:
- Just transition – rights for all workers to employment security and training
- A European investment plan at scale with social conditions attached to all public support for industry to ensure guarantees on good jobs
- A right to affordable, clean energy for all at home and work, with infrastructure plans and more democratic control
- Democracy at work through stronger collective bargaining and worker participation
- And global supply chain guarantees that ensure fair trade, fair purchasing practices and respect for human rights.
The European project was built by industrial workers, it’s time to put working people back at the center of this project through a clean European investment and industrial deal with good jobs at its heart. We must take hold of our destiny. As a trade union organisation representing industrial and energy workers in the industry, we urge you to take into account our needs while finalising the Clean Industrial Deal proposals.
Sincerely yours
General Secretaries:
Fim-Cisl, Ferdinando Uliano
Fiom-Cgil, Michele De Palma
Uilm-Uil, Rocco Palombella
Filctem-Cgil, Marco Falcinelli
Femca-Cisl, Nora Garofalo
Uiltec-Uil, Daniela Piras
