WoW event: For high social protection and a low carbon economy
The European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF) sees climate change as a dangerous reality for all industrial workers. Tackling it effectively requires a clear social response from policy-makers as well as industrial strategies based on low carbon technologies serving to shore up workplaces in European industry in the future.
This was the message delivered by the EMF at today’s seminar led by the ETUC at the World of Work Pavilion in Copenhagen.
“Long-term employment policies and sufficient investments are necessary to ensure a smooth transition to a low carbon economy” said Peter Scherrer, EMF General Secretary.
In the context of the ongoing UN climate change negotiations the EMF sets out its key demands for the road leading from Copenhagen.
1. Promoting sustainable employment policies – not more of the same 2. Europe urgently needs a sustainable industrial policy 3. Creating an international sectoral level playing field to avoid carbon leakage 4. Ensuring a socially just transition to a low carbon economy 5. Greening our workplaces
These demands fit into the EMF’s long held call for stronger European industrial policies promoting the anticipation and management of industrial change.
For more information see the EMF website http://www.emf-fem.org/Areas-of-work/Industrial-Policy/EMF-Manifesto-for-more-and-better-industrial-jobs
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PRESS 47/2009
The EMF is the representative body defending the interests of workers in the European metal industry. The EMF has a mandate for the external representation and coordination of the metalworkers' unions and a mandate to engage in bargaining at European level.
For further information please contact:
Peter Scherrer, EMF General Secretary http://www.emf-fem.org/Contact/Staff/Scherrer-Peter
Judith Kirton-Darling, EMF Industrial Policy Adviser (Tel. 0032 227 1052)