‘Invest now or deindustrialise’ was the recent, stark warning put to the EU by industrial trade unions.

Continued heavy losses in manufacturing jobs over the past decades are now culminating in what has been termed a crisis for European industry and the many workers it employs.

But how should this crisis be addressed? Is the European Commission taking the right approach with the recently presented Clean Industrial Deal? And what could a worker-friendly European industrial policy look like today?

Discussion with Judith Kirton-Darling, General Secretary of the industrial workers’ federation ⁠industriAll Europe⁠, and Ludovic Voet, Confederal Secretary at the European Trade Union Confederation.

Further reading

Industrial policy for quality jobs and a just transition | etui

Benchmarking Working Europe 2024 | etui

Green transition and job quality: risks for worker representation | etui

Workers and the climate challenge | etui

The future of the automotive sector | etui

Provisions for social conditionality, employment security and anticipation and management of change in the Clean Industrial Deal 

ETUC calls for adequate financing and responsible simplification in the Clean Industrial Deal | ETUC