Quality of Life for All

Public Transport – Towards a Sustainable Mobility

Ecological Sustainability Economical Sustainability Social Sustainability What can we contribute? Politics change Sector changes To Do at ETF level To Do at Trade Union Level

1. Ecological Sustainability  Climate Change is man-made. We have ~10 years to avoid the worst effects.  Until 2099: Temperature will rise +3 to +8°C  Major source of increase in CO2 emissions: Transport +69%.

Public Transport is at the Core of Ecological Sustainability in cities: Increasing Public Transport could …  attract +5% bus passengers  +10% railway passengers  -0,9% car use  -0,4% greenhouse gas emissions.  Job growth in Public Transport (AUT: jobs/year) Not much?  Speed limits of 80/100 km/h: -12% greenhouse gas emissions!

What can we contribute? The major factors are not in our hands:  Regional Structure (housing, shopping centres, business)  Urbanisation and car use  pricing of city car space (parking, city toll) Politics is also in our hands:  We are not only responsible for our workplaces, but also for our sector: Engage in Politics

Economic Sustainability Financial situation of the public sector:  generally worsening due to tax competition Financial situation of the public transport sector:  fair for state-owned public transport companies (EU-15)  fair to bad for private public transport companies  profit margin <5% in British bus industry  Sweden since competition: -267 Mio SEK deficit  bad to very bad for state-owned pt companies (NAC) Restructuring in Public Transport sector:  < 6 large multinational companies,  some large integrated public companies remaining in Metropolises  Many, many very little operators in niches

What can we contribute? Tax competition is done by governments:  Lobbying for minimum company taxes  EU lobbying for an end to unanimity in tax issues Competition between operators is done by public authorities:  Lobbying against competition in Public Transport  Lobbying for quality and social standards in public tenders Our response to restructuring?  organise Multinationals  keep strongholds in public companies  … thereby setting standards to protect conditions in SME

Social Sustainability  Transport is unfair to users:  Unfair access: Those who can‘t afford a car, loose opportunities:

Social Sustainability  Unfair burden of consequences: Externalities mostly hurt the already marginalized: poor, disabled, elderly, children  Private car is over-privileged: Who has a car, has more chances to find a job, to buy cheaper goods, to entertainment, leisure, nature. „Poor transport can […] reinforce social exclusion“ (UK Government‘s Social Exclusion Unit)  Transport is unfair to users:  Unfair access: Those who can‘t afford a car, loose opportunities:

Social Sustainability 2) EU transport policy is unfair to public transport workers  PSO directive (by 2009):  compulsory tendering in regional bus services  direct award in railway and inhouse awards with strict conditions  state-owned companies also take on competition-like behaviour  Railway packages: jobs in the last years  Sector restructuring:  worse wages, worse working conditions, less jobs

Times, they are changin‘ Politics change  The conditions which form our workplaces, are moved far outside the companies:  EU politics  national liberalisation  Politics is done by lobbying  limited scope of social partnership  „networks and partners“  resources count  less democratic accountability (Bob Dylan) We have to change:  intensified ETF lobbying  intensified national lobbying  Social partnership needs a strategy and has to be accompanied by pressure  Team up in networks  Take part in ETF lobbying and pay ETF fees  develop pressure

Times, they are changin‘ Sector changes  More and more public tendering  In direct award: less and less subsidy available  Market structure concentrates  larger public transport networks  less & bigger Multinationals  more & more complex company relations  restructuring of public companies (Bob Dylan) We have to change :  lobby public authorities, linked with industrial action  maintain public „safe havens“  tender quality and social standards  European Works Councils  training + sharing experience on restructuring and outsourcing

To Do at ETF level  Research & Training:  How to implement quality and social standards into tendering  How to campaign for these standards  Strategy building:  How to achieve results in a worsening political environment  Coordinated Lobbying:  Example: Protection on transfer of ownership (cross-sectoral)  Networking:  Multinational corporations and their practices  Social Dialogue  develop strategies and prepare pressure

To Do at Trade Union Level  Research, Training, Recruiting:  set up campaigning structures  recruit rank & file members for European activity  Lobbying:  against further national liberalisation  against tenders without quality and social standards  lobby EU members (MEPs, Government  Council) in concert with ETF lobbying  Networking:  Team up European Works Councils of Multinationals  EU-Social Dialogue  prepare for pressure at EU level

A final remark  How did you come to this conference?  What for are you here?  This conference emitted approx. 100 people x 2500 km flight = 400 x 100 kg CO 2 = kg CO2.  If we don‘t set up anything which saves more emissions than this, then we have damaged the world just by talking.