Relaunching a sustainable and value-adding European sectoral social dialogue
Monday 19 September 2016
Social dialogue is a determining factor when it comes to competitiveness and employment and social partners need to play a key role in shaping the European Social Agenda. With their role recognised in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and with their mandate to determine working conditions in most European countries, this should be obvious. Why, then, are European-level social partners now experiencing a watering-down of their role and input into policy making at EU level?
European sectoral social dialogue must be fit-for-purpose
Following the Commission's relaunch of Social Dialogue and the statement signed by the European cross-sectoral social partners, Commission and Council in June 2016, industriAll Europe and CEEMET have today published a joint declaration on how they as sectoral social partners, can better contribute to a European policy making that fosters competitiveness and job creation in the European manufacturing industry at a time of vast structural change in our economies and societies.
Read Declaration in DE, EN, FR.
Article written by Walter Van den Bossche
