8 Amendments of Patrick LE HYARIC related to 2013/2177(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas constant restructuring in the steel sector, reflecting in part a management focus on profit at the expense of investment and wages, rleduced to mass closures of industrial plant, cutting the workforce from 1 million in 1970 to 369 000 in 2012, with a devastating impact on employment levels across whole regions;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A (b) (new)
Recital A (b) (new)
Ab. whereas the position of the steel sector as a supplier to whole areas of European industry makes it particularly vulnerable to changes in the economic climate, and any economic slowdown leaves it with excess capacity, which is too often used as a pretext for restructuring; whereas its position as an upstream sector gives it a strategic role with regard to the Commission’s declared ambition to re- industrialise, boosting the share of manufacturing in EU GDP to 20% by 2020;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital A (g) (new)
Recital A (g) (new)
Ag. whereas the OECD forecasts that world demand for steel will rise from 1.5 billion to 2.3 billion tonnes by 2025, figures which represent a healthy prospect for the steel industry; whereas the EU possesses first-class skills, know-how, infrastructure and industrial plant, and these should be adapted to meet future demand rather than pruned or abandoned in pursuit of short-term gain or to facilitate the opening up of hypothetical other markets;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is concerned at the lack of ambition in the action plan for the steel industry in Europe; calls for a strategypurposeful, comprehensive strategy, embracing trade, energy, environment, employment and training policy, that draws on all the European Union policy tools, including for employment and trainingfinancial tools for the purposes of reinvesting in the sector, closing the training gap, curbing dumping practices within and outside the Union and combating increases and volatility in the price of raw materials and energy;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for competition-policy and State aid rules to be revised to promote productive investment, employment and training, to encourage the involvement of employees’ representatives in management and decision-making and to introduce the option of public takeovers in crisis situations;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Endorses the principle that ongoing social dialogue with workers’ representatives should be a requirement; calls for ambitious EU-level arrangements for keeping workers informed and consulting them, and forfor anticipating possible restructuring and for works councils and group works councils to be given morenew rights and more responsibilities in terms of intervention;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the importance of EU support for training and employment in industrial transition processes and for retaining and developing skills and know-how; calls for such support to be kept in place and for its use to be monitored;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for account to be taken in the new European strategy on health and safety at work, and in policy documents on pensions, of the arduous nature ofand stressful nature of employees’ and subcontractors’ work in the steel sector.