Swiss economy –
Syna calls on the State to strong measures in the face of customs duties
The interprofessional union calls on the state to urgently protect the threatened export sectors, suggesting a three -step plan.
For Syna, tens of thousands of jobs are threatened by exorbitant customs duties decided by the American president, especially in the field of watchmaking.
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The concern wins Switzerland while the president of the Confederation, Karin Keller-Sutter, and the vice-president, Guy Parmelin, returned from Washington without having obtained anything from Donald Trump on the customs duties. This Thursday, August 7, via a press release, Syna calls for immediate protective measures for the export industry.
Machines, electrical engineering, metallurgy, watchmaking, chemical and pharmaceutical industry: for the interprofessional union, tens of thousands of jobs are threatened by the exorbitant customs duties decided by the American president. And this “in particular in exporting regions such as Jura, Argovie, Eastern Switzerland and Ticino,” said the press release.
The union So calls “urgently the Federal Council and the Parliament to act”, and this in three stages. He thus requests, in the short term, “an immediate extension of compensation in the event of reducing the work schedule for the hardest affected branches”.
No reverse on the energy transition
In the medium term, he imagines “an action plan coordinated by the public authorities to help companies lasting their production, their outlets and their jobs”, including “public investments in research, innovation and digital” or even “a reindustrialisation focused on quality, sustainability and fair working conditions”.
In the long term, Syna enjoins the authorities not to “give up recognized Swiss quality standards” and not to “weaken workers’ rights [ni] back up on the energy transition and social skills ”.
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