Delivering the Just Transition for automotive workers: coalition of trade unions, environmentalists and industry present their common call for action in a joint briefing event on 7 December

Earlier in the year, industriAll Europe and the Just Transition Centre joined forces with a broader coalition including employers and environmental organisations, all supporting the objective of climate neutrality by 2050 and the need for increased ambition in 2030 to reach this.

Ahead of the European Parliament committee’s scrutiny of the European Commission’s Fit for 55 Package, the coalition is launching a joint briefing (EN, DE, FR) with a common set of demands for a Just Transition framework for the automotive and mobility sectors, an eco-system that employs 16 million workers in Europe.

The launch event on 7 December is co-hosted by MEPs Mohammed Chahim /Agnes Jongerius (S&D, Netherlands), Michal Wiezik (EPP, Slovakia), Michael Bloss (Greens, Germany), and will hear from trade unions, environmentalists and industry their common call for action for a Just Transition framework built on:

1. Mapping of employment impacts at company, regional and national levels to ensure effective skills intelligence and anticipation of change.
2. Policy support and exchanges of best practices: the extension of the Just Transition Platform to the scope of the European Green Deal.
3. Transition planning and social dialogue, including negotiated transition plans at company, regional and sectoral levels, and strengthening of social dialogue through binding social conditionality on