EU: first seminar for the future European social dialogue committee on non-ferrous metals

The future European social partners of the non-ferrous metals sector - the European Metalworkers Federation (EMF), the Council of European Employers of the Metal, Engineering and Technology-Based Industries (CEEMET) and Eurometals - met on October 12 to start talks before the latter is appointed by its members to take part in European social dialogue. Organizations revealed the topics which will make up their work program. (Ref. 070870)
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According to Bart Samyn, assistant general secretary at the EMF, an “ambitious work program”, has been prepared as part of this first “technical seminar”, even if it wasn’t a meeting of the sectorial social dialogue committee. “Topics which were laid out are broad, now we have to define what the priorities are”. Broad indeed they are, since they go from European policies regarding industry, trade and energy to questions such as anticipating needs in workforce training or even how to validate th

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