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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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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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After the three-month lockdown from March to May 2020, Italian national and regional government has done little to prepare adequately for the second wave. This has led to a deepening of the health and social crisis: According to experts, the virus is almost impossible to control, the intensive care units in hospitals are overloaded and healthcare workers are reaching their limits.
"With this level of new infections, the number of tests carried out no longer makes sense. It made sense to do 400,000 tests a day to break the chain of infection. But now the virus has got...
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The value chains in the automotive industry are spread across multiple European countries (reaching from Spain to, for example, Serbia) as well as across North and South America. The automotive industry is a global heavyweight, and therefore the discussion about a possible transformation of the automotive industry towards environmentally friendly forms of transport must also be a global one. In 2019, 65 million new cars were sold worldwide, while millions of people work in the automotive industry and ...
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read more "Web conference on the transformation of the automotive industry as an international project"
This was the second expert consultation on the automotive industry to be organised by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels Office. However, this consultation could only take place online due to the required pandemic protection measures.
The participants included trade union representatives, workers' representatives and scientists researching the transformation and future of the automotive industry.
The coronavirus pandemic and ensuing economic crisis have seen car sales drop, placing the automotive industry under further ...
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read more "Report: Second expert consultation on the automotive industry"
Crafting Human Rights Due Diligence Legislation for Arms CompaniesThe international legal systems deployed to restrain the arms industry in the face of violations of human rights and humanitarian law are demonstrably weak. In certain areas, collective action has attempted to address this. Union workers in Italy refused to load generators onto boats laden with arms and bound for Saudi Arabia; diverse coalitions of demonstrators protested arms fairs in the UK; and Google employees refused to continue the corporation’s work on developing AI technology that could be ...
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Promoting coordinated action by European working-class organisationsThe 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.
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The tender is for a service to...
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Consultation of trade unionists, academics and policy experts at RLS BrusselsOn 26 September 2019, the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Brussels hosted a first major expert meeting on the transformation of the European automotive industry, an industry that is under pressure for a number of reasons. First of all, the economic model of producing cars with internal combustion engines in a mass production is approaching the limits of its environmental viability. Resources are becoming scarce, CO2 emissions need to fall sharply, ...
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New Challenges for the European World of Work
We appear to be on the cusp of a new age. The era of digitalisation looks set to revolutionise the status quo, from the world of work to the way we live, from leisure activities and public space through to politics and privacy. Technically, the term ‘digitalisation’ refers to the enhancement of information and communication processes by means of digital storage, transmission and processing technology. Innovative hardware and software allows these processes to take place faster and more flexibly and be less ...
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read more "Industry 4.0"
A far-reaching process of restructuring that did not come without difficulties.April 2014. All of the cleaning staff in the Netherlands who clean buildings belonging to the government and the state administration stop work at the same time and travel to protest in The Hague. Nobody cleans the parliament in the Dutch capital. Trains are left overflowing with rubbish. No one cleans Schiphol Airport. The cleaners working in office buildings also join the strike. As Getta Gajadhar explained to the press at the time, ‘We are ...
read more "How the Dutch trade union confederation got itself out of the crisis"
read more "How the Dutch trade union confederation got itself out of the crisis"