The second Congress of IndustrieAll Europe, the European union of metalworking, chemical, energy and textile industrial categories. IndustriAll represents around 7 million workers, organized by 200 trade unions in 38 European countries. The congress, attended by 750 delegates plus institutional guests, will elect the new management team and define the objectives of European trade unionism in industry:
– ensure investments for the future of manufacturing (Industry 4.0) and sustainable development;
– strengthen solidarity, social policy and collective bargaining;
– develop an effective counter-power towards the multinationals.
The FIM, the metalworkers of the CISL, the Italian industrial federation with the most members in IndustriAll Europe, is present with a delegation led by the International Secretary Gianni Alioti and by the Secretary General Marco Bentivogli.
The leader of the Fim declared: “For some time now, the only industrial and labor policies should have at least a continental breadth and coordination, supported by a strong European union. We have many common challenges and the need to anticipate – not only at a national level – towards the next industrial revolution. In these days we will elect the new top of IndustriAll Europe and we will immediately ask to strengthen the capacity for coordination and supranational initiative in individual corporate and sectoral disputes.
A trade union, which renews itself to manage the future, must have an ever greater capacity to influence international politics. For Bentivogli, a greater awareness must be spread that even the traditionally strong trade unions at national level will have ever more blunted weapons if they are not able to strengthen their internationalization processes”.
