7 Amendments of Joe HIGGINS related to 2010/2095(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the EU’s trade policy, set against the multilateral background of the WTO and a transparent and regulated market, needs an effective production base that is supported by appropriate sectoral policies and targeted at growth andecologically sustainable growth, development, investment into environmentally friendly production and innovation and at the creation of decent and unionised jobs;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is convinced that innovative, good- quality industrial production is vital to the EU’s trade policy and its competitiveness, in line with the EU 2020 Strategy and as a response to the economic and financial crisis, the aim being to cut Member State debt and unemployment figures, redistribute wealth more equallyhalt "internal devaluation" and to cut unemployment figures, achieve equal wealth distribution and to protect the European social model;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that in its industrial policies the EU must pay particular attention to supporting eco-compatible production, the protecting intellectual property, building up SME capital, to making SMEs internationally active, liberalising protected markets, stabilising exchange rates, to legal protection abroad, and to combating unfair competition and counterfeitingon of trade union, workers and human rights as well as the safeguarding of health and safety and social standards;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4a (new)
Paragraph 4a (new)
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4b (new)
Paragraph 4b (new)
4b. Highlights the importance of the international trade union movement in shaping a worker-friendly Industrial Policy for the Globalised Era, notices the pressures that are exerted on the trade union movement as a result of increased competition in a globalised world; calls for closer collaboration between the rank and file trade union movement in the international arena and for the recommendations of the trade union movement to be integrated into the new Industrial Challenges for the Globalised Era in order to meet the challenges of the future;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4c (new)
Paragraph 4c (new)
4c. Notices the ongoing threat of job losses due to delocalisation of production to low wage countries; calls for the nationalisation under democratic workers control of companies threatening with delocalisation in order to prevent de- industrialisation, increase in unemployment and decline in purchasing power as a result;