IndustriAll Europe

18/09/2026

Automotive workers across Germany are taking action to defend their jobs and the future of their industry.

Workers everywhere face the same employer playbook: crisis rhetoric, profit extraction, plant closures and wage pressure.

German automotive workers are pushing back, demanding:

➡️ Investment in their plants, not dividends for shareholders
➡️ Hands off the 35-hour week
➡️ Cost-cutting in management, not on the shopfloor ✊

Their fight reflects the demands at the heart of our new European campaign:

🏭 Invest in European industry
✊ Defend and create good industrial jobs
🔗 Strengthen strategic value chains
🎓 Invest in workers, skills and innovation
🤝 Make sure public money delivers public value

Enough is Enough.

On 21 September, let’s make that message heard across Europe.

Zwei Aktionstage. Ein gemeinsames Ziel.
Ob in der Industrie oder beim Sozialstaat: Es geht um sichere Arbeitsplätze, soziale Sicherheit und eine gute Zukunft für alle.
✊ 21. September: Automobil-Aktionstag
✊ 26. September: Aktionstag für soziale Politik
Wir kämpfen für Investitionen statt Kahlschlag, für sichere Renten und eine starke Industrie.
Sei dabei auch du dabei!

17/09/2026

🚨 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

Today, we launch a European campaign for the future of our industries and the people who make them.

Across Europe, workers are facing restructuring, plant closures and job cuts. Our campaign will bring workers and trade unions together across sectors and borders — from workplaces and national actions to a European mobilisation in Strasbourg.

✊ Europe’s Industry.
✊ Europe’s Jobs.
✊ Our Future.

The campaign starts NOW. 👇

17/09/2026

📣 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH — SPREAD THE WORD!

Today we launch our new Enough is Enough campaign: Europe’s Industry. Europe’s Jobs. Our Future.

And on Monday, 21 September, we will take the streets with IG Metall. 🚩 this automotive action day in Germany kickstarts an autumn of action across our industries 🏭🇪🇺

Automotive workers across Germany are taking action to defend their jobs and the future of their industry.

Workers everywhere face the same employer playbook: crisis rhetoric, profit extraction, plant closures and wage pressure.

German automotive workers are pushing back, demanding:

➡️ Investment in their plants, not dividends for shareholders
➡️ Hands off the 35-hour week
➡️ Cost-cutting in management, not on the shopfloor ✊

Their fight reflects the demands at the heart of our new European campaign:

🏭 Invest in European industry
✊ Defend and create good industrial jobs
🔗 Strengthen strategic value chains
🎓 Invest in workers, skills and innovation
🤝 Make sure public money delivers public value

Enough is Enough.

On 21 September, let’s make that message heard across Europe. Show your solidarity. Share the campaign. Stand with automotive workers in Germany.

📄 Download and share our campaign flyer: https://news.industriall-europe.eu/p/enough-is-enough

Europe’s Industry. Europe’s Jobs. Our Future.

17/09/2026

🚨 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

Today, we launch a European campaign for the future of our industries and the people who make them.

Across Europe, workers are facing restructuring, plant closures and job cuts. Our campaign will bring workers and trade unions together across sectors and borders — from workplaces and national actions to a European mobilisation in Strasbourg.

✊ Europe’s Industry.
✊ Europe’s Jobs.
✊ Our Future.

The campaign starts NOW. 👇

Today, industriAll Europe launches its new campaign, Enough is Enough: Europe’s Industry, Europe’s Jobs, Our Future, mobilising workers and trade unions across sectors and borders against job cuts and underinvestment, and for an industrial policy that puts workers, investment and European produc...

17/09/2026

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TODAY, WE’RE LAUNCHING OUR NEW CAMPAIGN: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ‼️ 🏭 🇪🇺

Europe’s industry is at a crossroads.

Factories are closing. Good industrial jobs are disappearing. Workers and communities are paying the price.

But Europe’s industrial decline is not inevitable.

We have the workers.
We have the skills.
We have the know-how.
We have the industrial base.

Now Europe needs to choose to invest in its industry and its workers.

✊ Europe’s Industry. Europe’s Jobs. Our Future.

16/09/2026

♻️ There is no circular economy without workers.

Europe’s move towards a more circular economy can strengthen industrial resilience, reduce resource consumption and create new green jobs. But for that transition to succeed, workers must be at its heart.

The upcoming Circular Economy Act must go beyond recycling and material targets. It needs to deliver quality jobs, fair wages, strong collective bargaining, effective social dialogue and the highest standards of occupational health and safety.

Workers across manufacturing, repair, waste collection, sorting and recycling bring essential knowledge and skills to the circular economy. Their jobs must not become a new market for precarious employment, unsafe conditions or excessive subcontracting.

Public funding should also come with clear social and environmental conditions, while workers and trade unions must have a meaningful role in shaping and managing the transition.

A truly circular European economy must be not only environmentally sustainable and economically resilient, but socially just.

🔗 Read the full article:

Judith Kirton-Darling and Jan Willem warn that waste, repair and recycling jobs risk becoming Europe's next low-pay, high-hazard market.

16/09/2026

📢 Stronger protections for workers on the move across Europe

The European Commission has proposed new powers for the European Labour Authority (ELA) as part of its Fair Labour Mobility Package — measures aimed at strengthening enforcement of labour rights for the 14 million EU citizens working in another Member State.

The proposals include stronger access to data to identify labour abuses, a European Social Security Pass, extending the ELA’s labour-rights mandate to non-EU migrant workers, and greater support for grassroots services helping mobile workers understand and exercise their rights.

Trade unions have welcomed the proposals while stressing that effective enforcement, cooperation with unions and strong safeguards for migrant and cross-border workers will be essential.

With risks including unpaid wages, exclusion from social security and unsafe working conditions, stronger cross-border enforcement can make a tangible difference for workers across Europe.

🔗 Read the full article:

ETUC press release

16/09/2026

16/09/2026

⚠️ President Von der Leyen European Commission ahead of your address today , Europe’s industrial workers have something to say!

📢 We don’t need another diagnosis. We need delivery.

⚡ Affordable, decarbonised energy
🏭 Investment in European industry
👷 Quality jobs and skills
🤝 Respect for collective bargaining
💶 Public money tied to public obligations

Europe cannot subsidise companies today only to see them cut jobs or close plants tomorrow.

The Industrial Accelerator Act needs teeth. Made in Europe must mean quality jobs in Europe.

Europe’s industrial future is being decided now. Workers must have a place in it.

Steel and chemical plants cannot wait 10 years for cheap power, and the Industrial Accelerator Act needs teeth. Opinion published in Social Media.

16/09/2026

When Ursula von der Leyen takes the stage for her State of the Union address today, she will do so at the halfway point of her second mandate.

⏰ For Europe’s industrial workers, the time for diagnosis is over.

The question is no longer whether Europe needs an active industrial policy. That argument has been won.

❓ The question now is can the European Commission turn ambition into delivery ❓

Judith Kirton-Darling

Steel and chemical plants cannot wait 10 years for cheap power, and the Industrial Accelerator Act needs teeth.