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Creating and maintaining an environment that ensures a thriving and competitive manufacturing sector able to deliver high quality and sustainable employment is a common goal for both employers and trade unions in Europe. 

CEEMET – EMF CEEMET and the European Metalworkers Federation (EMF) want to contribute, particularly in the area of social policy, to improving the environment that supports the development of competitive and profitable companies. Without such companies, it will not be possible to have sustainable jobs and improve the social conditions in the metal, electrical and technology-based industries in Europe. By creating an improved economic environment, CEEMET and the EMF are convinced that the industries in our sector and their employees have a future in Europe. Since January 2006 there has been a permanent CEEMET – EMF High Level Group for a competitive European MET industry.

CEEMET and the EMF aim at reaching a joint understanding of the challenges facing the sector and possible solutions based on good practice and have therefore set up this permanent working group where social policy-related topics can be discussed in the spirit of good faith and trust between the two organisations.

Social Dialogue Agreement on SILICA Dust

In 2006, CEEMET, the European Foundry Association (CAEF) and other affected European industry associations together with the European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF) and the European Chemical Workers’ Union (EMCEF) reached a Social Dialogue Agreement on “Workers Health Protection through the Good Handling and Use of Crystalline Silica and Products containing it” within the Negotiation Platform on Silica (NePSi). The SDA on Silica is a unique, non-legally binding “one-shot” Social Dialogue Agreement based on examples of “good practice” as an alternative to regulation through an EU-Directive.