‘Leather Is My Job’ project to run again in 2016
15/12/2015
COTANCE, the representative body of the leather industry in the European Union (EU), led the project, working jointly with trade union organisation industriAll. The initiative had the support of the European Commission.
A follow-up project will roll out throughout 2016 and half of 2017, COTANCE announced in December, mainly focusing on “enlarging and deepening” the results achieved already.
“Feedback from the industry in Europe to our first project, both from workers and businesses, was so encouraging that we did not hesitate to pursue our objectives further in the field,” said the EU social partners at a kick-off meeting.
They also reported positive reactions from extra-EU sources and from leather value chain partners. “This is highly encouraging,” said Luc Triangle, deputy general secretary of industriAll, “as it denotes that we are on the right track in the social dialogue in our sector.”
COTANCE’s secretary general, Gustavo Gonzalez-Quijano, added: “I am very pleased that through this initiative, Luc and I bring Europe closer to the leather businesses and workers who many not always see all that is done at EU level in support of the industry.”
This second ‘Leather is my Job’ project will bring together industry associations and trade unions from France, Germany, Bulgaria, Spain, Portugal, the UK, Romania, Sweden, Italy, Austria and Hungary.
It will include open-days in tanneries, visits to schools, contact with employment agencies, participation in job fairs and so on. A meeting of all project partners will take place in March 2016 to look at national initiatives and decide on the definitive activities to be performed.
There will be a particular effort to reach out organisations that have not yet taken part in the initiative, particularly in central and eastern Europe.
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