PRESS STATEMENT Making Germany a sustainable industrial hub

Jörg Hofmann, President of IG Metall: “The COVID-19 pandemic has given new momentum to the driving forces of transformation. While coping with both the pandemic and structural change simultaneously creates significant pressure, it also opens up new opportunities for Germany as an industrial hub. This requires common guidelines for action by companies and policymakers, as well as by the business community and labor unions. These must continually be realigned with social, environmental, and economic perspectives for workers, industry, and society. The ‘Future of Industry’ alliance was founded six years ago, in part at the initiative of IG Metall. It is an important forum for identifying and jointly shaping these guidelines. The pandemic has brought this even more sharply into focus. We must manage and steer this transformation, never losing sight of the fact that the course for the transition to sustainable technologies and value chains must be set now. This is what we at IG Metall are committed to; this is what the alliance is committed to; and we are tackling this through a joint effort.”

To the joint press release

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