COTANCE president hails European industry’s “social maturity”
A project to set up a tool to support collective bargaining and share best practice in employee-employer relations in the leather industry in Europe has concluded successfully, industry representative body, COTANCE, has said.
It held a review meeting with trade union organisation IndustriAll-Europe at the end of April and concluded that the ERICA (European Repository of the Industry’s Collective Agreements) project had gone well.
The two partner organisations spent 14 months collecting information on collective agreements from leather industry organisations in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Portugal, Sweden and Hungary. They also held five national workshops to discuss the data and two larger-scale panel discussions.
COTANCE president, Manuel Rios, said “With projects like this, the European tanning sector has demonstrated the level of social maturity it has reached.” He said he hoped the initiative would help bring “some public attention for the values of our industry”.
