e-skills and workers in the metalworking industry

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e-skills and workersin the metalworking industry

• Caroline Jacobsson, Adviser
• European Metalworkers Federation

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European Metalworkers Federation

• 78 affiliated organisations
• 5.5 million metalworkers in 9 sectors
• 33 countries
• Founded 1971
• Largest of the European industry federations
• Co-operation between member organisations
• Common positions
• Representation vis-à-vis the European
  institutions
• Counterweight to employer organisations and to
  multinationals, social dialogue

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• 1908
• Ford Highland Park plant
• Ford assembly line
• Skills of craft workers
• Purchasing power
• Five-Dollar-Day
• Literacy level

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T-Ford

• "I will build a car for the great multitude.
• It will be large enough for the family, but small
  enough for the individual to run and care for.
• It will be constructed of the best materials, by
  the best men to be hired, after the simplest
  designs that modern engineering can devise.
• But it will be low in price so that no man making
  a good salary will be unable to own one - and
  enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of
  pleasure in God's great open spaces.
• Henry Ford

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• 1928
• Standardised production
• Mass production
• Decrease unit cost/decrease labour cost
• Displaced workers, migrant workers
• Decrease workers purchasing power
• Need for vocational training

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• 2008
• Standardisation in services and manufacturing
• Outsourcing
• Technological development
• Adaptability of workers
• e-skills
• Co-operation with industry and European
  institutions
• Social relations in the workplace

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• Continuous training of workers
• in cooperation with all stakeholders
• is a prerequisite for
• maintaining manufacturing in Europe
• and keeping pace with the changing
• technological development in the
• metalworking industry.
• EMF

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• Caroline Jacobsson
• cjacobsson_at_emf-fem.org
• www.emf-fem.org