18 Amendments of Dirk STERCKX related to 2010/2010(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas gender equality is an objective of the Lisbon Treaty; whereas women are underrepresented in the construction industry and research, for examplevarious sectors, and can therefore not profit from the increase in jobs in the green economy to the same extent,
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Supports the Commission’s flagship initiative under the Europe 2020 strategy to make the change towards a sustainable economy now, to decouple economic growth from consumption of resources and energy, to reduce climate-damaging emissions and thus to act against global warming; welcomes the intention to align legal framework conditions, market economy incentive instruments, subsidies and public procurement with that objective; regrets that, in the strategy, the Commission omitted to address employment market potential and the challenges of change;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that most new green jobs are concentrated in certain sectors such as construction, renewable energies, environment technologies, sustainable mobility (transport by bicycle, freight and passenger rail transport), recycling, sustainable agriculture, forestry and fishery and environmental servicecannot yet be found in all sectors; notes that the service sector also bears considerable green employment potential;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the EU and the Member States to anticipate change, i.e. to overcome information failures and uncertainties and foster awareness, social learning processes and changes in consumption patterns; states that companies invest in clean technologies only if there is some security about future benefits and that workers are willing to face change if there is a prospect of future employment and a safety net changes lead to more employment opportunities;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the EU, the Member States and the social partners to fight discrimination and promote gender equality in a sustainable economy, create work environments that attract and retain women in these sectors, reduce gender- based job segmentation and wage gaps and establish a quota for women on company boards of 40%;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes thatCalls on the Commission, overestimates and above the job potential for highly qualified employees in the sustainable economy, and thus loses sight of the many, also to pay attention to jobs in the middle and lower qualification bands in the sustainable economy; calls on the Member States to enhance the status of jobs in the middle and lower training bands and to ensure good working conditions in those jobs;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that, owing to the lower level of organisation of employees and of employers in new sectors, the risk of precarious employment relationships and bad working conditions is greater; calls on the EU and Member States to create framework conditions for establishing representative bodies in new sectors; invites the Commission to promote EU- wide exchange of best practice examples;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the social partners to embrace new sectors and develop strategies to include sector associations in the social partnership and promote female participation in male-dominated representative bodies;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the EU to develop a framework for anticipating change and restructuring, providing the guaranteed right for all affected workers to take part in training and lifelong learning schemes; calls on the Member States, employers and employees to recognise skills management, training and lifelong learning as a shared responsibility, as acknowledged in the social partners’ 2002 framework agreement on lifelong learning;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Recalls that the sustainable dimension should not be restricted to training in environment-related jobs, but needs to be incorporated into all training programmes and made a prerequisite for funding;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Call on the EU and the Member States to create framework conditions forwork towards a socially fair transformation which minimises the risks of change and optimises gains for all employees;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Emphasises that, in order for transition to be socially just, workers must have a participative partnership role to play in the process; calls for the involvement of trade unionemployees’ ‘green representatives’ in companies, who would actively participate in ‘greening’ their workplaces, companies and industries;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Member States and the social partners to cooperate in a structured manner with environmental stakeholders, including NGOs,make structured use of the advice of environmental experts in managing transition;