Ensuring tomorrow’s European leather industry|
donderdag 4 februari 2016 COTANCE and industriAll Europe launched their joint Manifesto at the final conference of « A Future for European Leather! » in Brussels. The event was attended to its maximum capacity of 60 participants. The European leather industry represents 30.000 workers in the tanning sector and 85.000 workers in the leather goods sector, not including the 280.000 workers in the footwear sector , which makes it a concern to industriAll Europe. Tanners are present all over Europe and are the most active in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Romania, France, Germany & the United Kingdom.
The Manifesto is the result of the coordinated 4 seminars held in 2015 in the framework of the Social Dialogue engaging experts and social partners. “The leather industry is at a crossroad for its development in Europe” as stated in the final report. These seminars debated the reflections and recommendations needed to address and shape tomorrow’s leather industry. Four different areas were identified as crucial to the industry’s future: 1/ industrial issues, 2/ Social/Societal issues, 3/ Trade issues 4/ Environment issues. The European Social Partners formulated in their Leather Manifesto a number of recommendations, such as:
Manifesto puts together our common objectives and recommendations to crop with
tomorrow’s crucial turn in the European leather industry. ‘industriAll Europe
will play their role to make sure tomorrow’s European Leather Industry prosper
and grow and create sustainable quality jobs’ stated Luc Triangle, Deputy General Secretary industriAll Europe.