Brussels, 07/05/2013
Agenda Final Conference
9.00-9.45 Building a Union Agenda for a Mobility Revolution
Introduction Patrick Itschert, Deputy General Secretary, ETUC
9.45-10.30 Keynote speech: Engaging the workforce in Europe’s sustainable mobility agenda
- Keir Fitch, Deputy Head of Cabinet, Transport and Mobility
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.30 Rights for Workers to Sustainable Mobility
- A legal charter for commuter rights: Manel Ferri, CC.OO.
- Building alliances beyond the union movement – the UK experience of the ‘Action for Rail’ campaign: Matt Dykes,TUC
- Belgian experience of collective rights for sustainable mobility:
Bénedicte Vellande, CSC-ACV
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Investment in Mobility Policies as a Driver of Economic Recovery
- Investing to ensure inclusive sustainable mobility : Anne-Sophie Parent,
Secretary General of Age Platform Europe
Response from Philippe Lamberts MEP, ECON committee
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-17.15 Just Transition in a Modal Shift
- CARS 2020: anticipating and managing change: Wolf Jäcklein (IndustriAll)
- Transport workers strategies Eduardo Chagas, ETF
- Alejandro Cercas MEP, Coordinator, EMPL
Concluding Report of the Two Day Workshop (December 2012 and February 2013)
With financial support of the European Commission
