Automotive Industry
Mobility is a basic human need. Over the last 100 years, the automobile has revolutionised the transport of people and goods. The automotive industry is a core industrial sector employing millions of people in Germany, Europe and the world. The trade unions in the metal sector are strong and powerful organisations without which the enforcement of social rights would have been impossible. But the costs and irreversible damage caused by the fossil fuel era are now undeniable. The technology based on the burning of fossil fuels is reaching its ...
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A post by Timo DaumGerman cities as pioneers of the traffic revolution? That was true once! Nowadays, it is others who are finding alternatives to the car. Which measures are successful, in what context are they taken, who are the key players? An overview.
Freiburg: More bikes, but also more cars
Freiburg and Münster are known throughout Europe as examples of successful municipal transport policy. Ramón Linaza, a leading Spanish transport activist, recalls: “we have always seen Freiburg as a reference.” However, ...
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read more "The music is playing elsewhere. Traffic revolution in Europe"
The rising prices of energy and petrol or diesel are currently on everyone’s lips – and rightly so, because they expose middle- and low-income people to an ever-increasing risk of poverty. This applies to people in the EU as well as to other regions of the world, such as Brazil, where the movement for a zero fare for public transport (Movimento Passe Livre) emerged in 2013 and continues to grow.[1] In the USA, a car country, the mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, recently spent eight million dollars to allow residents to use part of ...
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On 8 February 2022, the European Commission introduced the long-awaited “Chips Act” – EUR 43 billion will be raised across Europe to support the semiconductor industry. European rules on state aid should be softened in order to achieve this objective. This immediately calls out critics who fear restrictions on competition and free trade. However, this industrial offensive is to be welcomed in principle, because the digital transformation generates a rapidly growing demand for microchips, meaning that ...
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Proofreading of Italian translation of study on the international automotive sectorThe Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung is an internationally operating non-profit organisation for civic education affiliated with Germany’s Left Party. It is a discussion forum for progressive political alternatives and a centre for critical thinking and research both in Germany and throughout the world. The Brussels Office operates as a think tank reflecting on European and international issues affecting contemporary society.
Objectives
The tender is for a service of proofreading of an Italian ...
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Current Challenges for the International Automotive Sector – Voices from Unions, Workers, Climate Movement and IndustryAbout the publication
This publication uses individual case studies to examine the conditions needed for the international auto-motive industry to transition to an ecological mobility industry in specific countries. The active expansion of an ecological mobility industry for the production of vehicles used in local and long-distance public transport (rail vehicles and buses) can protect jobs and cut the global transport...
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With contributions from: Ulrike Eifler, DIE LINKE, Spokesperson for BAG Betrieb und Gewerkschaft, the working group on enterprise and trade unions; Benjamin Denis, IndustriALL; Katharina Stierl, Students for Future; Károly György, Hungarian Trade Union Confederation
You can find the English video of the web conference here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcJhEXatfqE
The German version is available here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZokCs4dCayk
The ...
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Towards a coordinated action for the social-ecological transformation of the European automotive industryAbout the book
The European automotive industry is undergoing deep structural transformations. In addition to the twin challenge of mastering the digital and ecological transition, it has to deal with the effects of the COVID-19 containment measures. All these changes are taking place within highly globalised value chains that have resulted from excessive offshoring and thus affect workers beyond single nation states or the European Union alone. The shift to ...
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read more "Together we are strong!"
Web conference on April 22, 2021 forming part of the Right to Mobility seriesThis was the third and final event in the Right to Mobility series, jointly organized by Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung New York City, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung São Paulo, and Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels. You can find more information about the previous events at the following links: Women in the City and Mobility (February 25, 2021): www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK7-a_XhKnA; and Right to Mobility against Racism (March 25, 2021): www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUPYqT2OZXc.
Buses and ...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has seen 40 million people moved into short-time work across the EU, and over 16 million are now unemployed, 2 million more than a year earlier, before the pandemic hit. Aside from the impact of COVID-19, in-work poverty has also been on the rise for years, meaning that more and more people cannot make ends meet despite being in work. One in 10 workers falls below the poverty threshold, equivalent to a 12% rise in recent years. One of the main reasons for this development is rising ...
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