ICT
The explosive boom in the ICT sector is over. Company crashes and redundancies have not yet come to an end. For the metalworkers’ unions, the interface between e-economy and the high-tech metal industry has become one of the most important strategic challenges.
Given the present situation, sectoral policy for the ICT sector needs a specific mixture of a sectoral and horizontal approach. Employment and lifelong learning, information and consultation, regulation on labour conditions and mobility are key issues. Managing change in restructuring of the ICT sector is a key activity of the EMF and its affiliates.
For more information, please contact Caroline Jacobsson, Information and Communications Adviser.
Improving the competitiveness of the European telecoms infrastructure industry
Petition to the European Parliament
From the European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF) and European Works Councils of European telecoms infrastructure vendors
The ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) industry is critical to Europe’s future, both as a major industrial sector in its own right, and as a driver of productivity and improved service quality in virtually all other activity sectors (such as transport, healthcare, and education) as well as in public services. The ICT industry is a key asset towards a greener Europe and towards the knowledge-based economy, two of the most important objectives of the EU.
Resource Centre
In this section you find useful documents about the ICT sector published by the European Commission or other authorities.
IG Metall activities in the ICT sector
Based on the roots of the Deutsche Metallarbeiter-Verband (DMV) (German Metalworkers' Federation) founded in 1891, IG Metall today represents more than 2.4 million employees from the metal, metal manufacturing, textile and clothing, and wood and plastics industries, as well as other related sectors.
IG Metall is a member of the German Confederation of Trade Unions (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, DGB), as well as a number of international union umbrella organisations, including the EMF.
IG Metall represents both blue- and white-collar workers.
