ArcelorMittal: European framework agreement on social dialog and anticipating change

We were the first to tell you about this negotiation (for the draft agreement and bargaining, see our dispatches No. 090718 and 090967). Concluded after five talk sessions with representatives from the management and from the European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF), this agreement signed simultaneously in London and Luxembourg today, November 2, covers country inside and outside of the EU where ArcelorMittal is present with an EMF member union (Bosnia, Macedonia…). Aimed to “facilitate the management and the anticipation of change by promoting effective social dialog with regards to changes within ArcelorMittal as well as accompanying tools to adapt, together with the development of appropriate training policies,” the agreement sets basic principles to which all the businesses included in its scope must refer.