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"Mr President, the restructuring in the car industry has been going on for a long time. In my own country, Sweden, where the car industry plays an incredibly large role, our big car companies have been bought up by multinational concerns. That is the case in Trollhättan, where GM now owns the Saab factory.
For Trollhättan, this is of huge significance. Six thousand people are employed by this industry and a further 6 000 people are dependent on it in a town with a population of approximately 50 000. Allow me to state that it is not the workers, but the company, that has, in this case, for a long time been making miscalculations.
Allow me also to say that I am not an opponent of restructurings. My party has always been open to restructurings, but it is important how they are carried out.
Firstly, they must be carried out with a sense of social responsibility. It is not only society that must accept social responsibility, but the companies too. The workers must be involved. It must not just be a case of informing them of decisions that have been taken. They must be actively involved in the restructuring process. Workers must not, as happens right now, be played off against each other in different countries by being told that they have to accept poorer social conditions if we are to engage in production. We shall not take part in that kind of game.
A number of people in our country say that we do not need more cooperation at European level, but the opposite is the case. We need more cooperation, partly between the union organisations, where there is constructive cooperation between IG Metall and the Swedish Metal Workers’ Union, and partly between politicians and trade unions. We also need political cooperation at European level. A high-level group that draws up guidelines for industrial policy is a good idea, but we also need the other dimension, namely a review of the European Works Councils Directive and the Collective Redundancies Directive. We need to strengthen those directives, so that we strengthen the position of workers when restructuring is carried out."@en1
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