Dow workers in Tarragona take job defense to Brussels
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A delegation of Dow's workforce on Tuesday requested the support of parliamentary groups in Brussels to stop the 138 layoffs that the multinational has presented in Spain. The STR union recalls that the chemical group's centers in Tarragona concentrate most of Dow's workforce in Spain, with 687 workers out of a total of 732 people. In several meetings on July 13 and 14 with representatives of different political groups of the European Parliament, Dow workers who traveled to Brussels warned that it is not only an internal problem of the multinational but also about "guaranteeing the survival of the European chemical industry and the Tarragona petrochemical complex," stated the president of the Dow Sur works council, David Navarro. "The Tarragona complex is the most important in southern Europe and we want it to be considered a strategic infrastructure so that it can receive protection and investments that guarantee its future, also within the framework of decarbonization. We want the Tarragona petrochemical complex to be a priority," said Navarro. The workers have warned that basic chemistry is the starting point for numerous industrial value chains and that its weakening would increase Europe's dependence on third countries for essential products and materials for sectors such as health, automotive, construction, agriculture, energy, or new technologies. "Europe cannot talk...
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