19/06/2010

EMF in Toronto for Sustainability Conference

The EMF is joining the two-day conference on economic, environment, and social dimensions of sustainability in Toronto organised by the global unions IMF and ICEM.

The conference is aimed at forging a worldwide workers' and communities' declaration for the upcoming G8 and G20 summits.

Full story available on the IMF website.

EMF Manifesto for more and better industrial jobs

For more information please contact Judith Kirton-Darling, EMF Policy Adviser

EMF presentation

Metalworkers in times of crisis: social management of crisis – anti-social management of recovery

Global trade unions demand sustainability from G8/G20 leaders

In the news: Rabble Canada 21 June 2010

Declaration

ICEM-IMF-ITGLWF Declaration

Stronger Together - Fighting for a Sustainable Future

Toronto, Canada, 19 June 2010

COP 15 - European metalworkers on the road from Copenhagen

For the European Metalworkers Federation climate change is a dangerous reality which demands a social response at international as well as European, national and regional/local and company levels. We believe that a drive towards new industrial strategies based on low carbon technologies and products can offer opportunities but also challenges for the future of industrial workplaces in Europe.

EFFAT's view on sustainable development

Sustainable development seeks to "meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” in the sense of balance between economic, social and environmental elements. Still, increasingly rapid global changes, from the melting of the icecaps to growing energy and resource demand, are challenging this objective.