Across Europe, industrial workers are facing restructuring, plant closures and job cuts. Good industrial jobs, and the communities and value chains that depend on them, are under pressure. But industrial decline is not inevitable. Europe has the skills, knowledge, industrial base and workers to build a strong industrial future. What is needed is investment in production, technologies and skills, and a transition that creates good jobs rather than destroys them.

Launched today, industriAll Europe’s Enough is Enough campaign will bring together workers and trade unions from across our sectors around a common demand: companies and policymakers must invest in Europe’s industrial future and stop making workers pay the price for underinvestment and strategic decisions they did not make.

The first major milestone of the campaign will be a large-scale automotive mobilisation in Germany on 21 September, led by IG Metall. Automotive is an important starting point because the sector is under immense pressure and, as Europe’s “industry of industries”, its future has consequences for vast supply chains across steel, metals, chemicals, machine tools and other sectors.

The mobilisation will have a strong European dimension. Austrian unions PRO-GE and GPA will hold a joint action in Vienna on 21 September, while trade union delegations from several countries will travel to Germany to show their solidarity with German auto workers. Czech union OS KOVO will send a delegation to support IG Metall colleagues in Zwickau, while industriAll Europe General Secretary Judith Kirton-Darling will join the mobilisation and address the rally in Rüsselsheim.

Around 130,000 European automotive jobs have been threatened with redundancy since 2020. Yet between 2012 and 2025, seven major European automotive manufacturers generated €469 billion in net profits, while €189 billion was distributed or spent on dividends and share buybacks.

Enough is enough. Europe needs an industrial strategy that puts investment, good jobs and production capacity ahead of short-term shareholder rewards. Public support must come with strong social conditions, and European industrial policy must strengthen European production and strategic value chains.

Over the autumn, the campaign will be taken forward through decentralised actions by industriAll Europe affiliates across countries and sectors, reflecting different national and sectoral contexts. These will range from national days of action and workplace mobilisation to digital actions and European-level events, building towards a European-level action at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 24 November.

IndustriAll Europe will regularly report on actions and developments throughout the campaign, with a dedicated campaign webpage bringing together updates from affiliates across Europe, campaign materials and information on upcoming events.

Europe’s Industry. Europe’s Jobs. Our Future.