Activities of Raúl DE LA HOZ QUINTANO
Plenary speeches (5)
The future of European competitiveness (debate)
The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)
The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)
The devastating floods in Spain, the urgent need to support the victims, to improve preparedness and to fight the climate crisis (debate)
The devastating floods in Spain, the urgent need to support the victims, to improve preparedness and to fight the climate crisis (debate)
Written questions (4)
Role of regional and local authorities in managing funds in the next programming period
Transposition of Directive (EU) 2018/851
Extraordinary measures to help the livestock sector to deal with bluetongue disease, bovine tuberculosis and epizootic haemorrhagic disease (EHD)
Labeling and designation of non-animal origin products
Amendments (20)
Amendment 22 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas collective bargaining and strong trade union involvement are essential for ensuring that workers’ voices arenecessary for EU competitiveness, economic growth and job creation and retention; whereas collective bargaining as well as close cooperation between employer and worker are essential to ensure that the voice of workers and employers is heard during restructuring negotiations; whereas workers’ involvement through information, consultation and participation in company decision-making processes is more important than ever to consolidate the fair and just transition of companies and to protect jobs and collective interests; whereas just transition is about supporting social justice and ensuring fair burden-sharing while fighting climate changeoptimising the social and economic opportunities of climate action, creating decent and high-quality jobs, leaving no one behind;
Amendment 32 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas only 40 % of European trade unions report having sufficient resources to represent workers effectively during restructuring processes4 ; whereas trade union representatives trained in restructuring negotiations are 50 % more effective in preserving jobs5 ; __________________ 4 European Trade Union Institute for Research, 2021. 5 International Labour Organization, 2022.
Amendment 39 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas a core objective of restructuring processes should be job retentionand talent retention; whereas legal and bureaucratic barriers, as well as restructuring costs, are a huge disadvantage in highly innovative sectors characterised by the “winner-takes-most” dynamic, thus affecting innovation and labour market flexibility;
Amendment 49 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
Amendment 67 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the automotive industry is a vital economic pillar in Europe, as highlighted in the Draghi Report;
Amendment 75 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the transition from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles is imperative, but itit is important to move towards the decarbonisation of road transport, which must be achieved in such a way thatas to avoids job losses in traditional automotive manufacturinghe car industry;
Amendment 99 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that employment security, fair wages and decent working conditions are fundamental rights that must be upheld in all restructuring processes to protect workers from corporate profit- seeking strategies; stresses the urgent need for an ambitious and competitive European industrial policy with significant investment that will support common goods and innovation and deliver quality jobs and social progress; underlines that this policy should be based on strong public services, social protection, housing, transport and childcare; supports a robust European industrial policy based on resilient and well-resourced public services and public administration, covering not just manufacturing, but all sectors and all transitions;
Amendment 122 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates its call for a permanent investment tool at EU level to ensure that the necessary resources are available in all sectors for developing an industrial policy and for policies that help reach the social and green targetsthe need to protect European industry and competitiveness, and to encourage the use of European resources to mitigate the consequences of major restructuring in European industry, based on the positive experiences of NextGenerationEU and the strong labour focus of the support to mitigate unemployment risks in an emergency instrument (SURE);
Amendment 134 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights that the delivery of a European industrial policy for quality jobs requires the full involvement of social partners and needs to be implemented through social dialogue and collective bargaining; calls on the Commission to include the overall objective of raising work quality and stability at the EU level;
Amendment 136 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 3 – point 1 (new)
(1) Underlines the need to eliminate bureaucratic barriers and reduce restructuring costs in the Member States.
Amendment 143 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the EU to adopt trade policies that protect European jobs while promoting fair and ethicalefficient and competitive trade; calls for countervailing tariffs to be applied to imports from countries where unfair labour practices, low environmental standards, or heavy state subsidies distort competition to be applied as a last resort; stresses that future trade agreements must include stroprioritize economic growth and competitiveness, while including labour clauses to ensure that global trade benefits workers, rather than without undermining their rights;
Amendment 154 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges the Commission to revise the European Public Procurement Directive6 in order to establish preferential treatment for companies complying with collective bargaining agreements; cCalls on the Commission to strengthen the social clause and exclude from tenders companies that have engaged in criminal activities or union busting or that have refused to participate in collective bargaining; highlights the importance of ensurpromoting that public money is used to invest in those engaged in just transitions with the aim of promoting collective agreements and increasing trade union densities; considers, furthermore, that all EU financial support to undertakings should be made conditional on theirpromote compliance with the applicable working and employment conditions and/or employer obligations resulting from the relevant collective agreements; believes that this support should also be conditional onincentivize their commitment to investing in European industries and maintaining jobs in the EU; __________________ 6 Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC, OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 65, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/24/oj.
Amendment 169 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Reiterates its call for EU funding, including State aid, to be conditional on public policy objectives, especially in strategic sectors, and on social requirements, in order to offer high-quality jobs, promote collective bargaining, respect EU labour rights and standards, improve the competitiveness of European businesses and ensure improved working conditions;
Amendment 175 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Supports investments in sectors such as electric vehicle battery production, charging infrastructure, renewable energy and digital technologies; insists that these investments must prioritise workers’ rights and community development;
Amendment 203 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that restructuring processes are essential in achieving the green transition objectives and are an imperative for a net-zero economy that sustains its social and environmental standards; warns that restructuring processes must never come at the cost of workers’ rights; calls on the Commission to take action to reinforce and promote collective bargaining, ensurpromoting an increase in collective bargaining coverage to at least 80 % in all Member States, and guaranteeing full respect of the right to collective bargaining;
Amendment 221 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Warns that restructuring must not be used as a pretext to violate workers’ and trade union rights7 ; deplores the violation of the fundamental rights of collective bargaining and information and consultation before a decision is made; calls on the Commission to put in place safeguards to prevent the misuse of restructuring as a means to exploit workers or avoid obligations, particularly in cases of tactical insolvency; __________________ 7 Study – ‘Study on monitoring the application of the EU Quality Framework for anticipation of change and restructuring’, European Commission, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, Publications Office of the European Union, 2018, https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/- /publication/1c22896d-4e10-11ea-aece- 01aa75ed71a1/language-en.
Amendment 230 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 241 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 255 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to develop a comprehensive plan, similar to the United States’ Inflation Reduction Act, focused on boosting investment in green technologies, renewable energy and sustainable industries, with the objective of accelerating the EU’s transition to a climate-neutral economy while strengthening the European social model and social justicen industrial plan for the automotive sector, focused on boosting investment and avoiding delocalisation of production away from the EU and loss of jobs, while continuing decarbonisation;
Amendment 272 #
2024/2829(RSP)
Draft motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16