According to a report from COWI, which has examined the future need for labor, industry alone needs 116,000 more hands by 2030 if Denmark is to achieve the goal of limiting CO2 emissions by 70 percent. It is skilled workers in particular who are needed - they make up half.
These figures, Dansk Metal believes, should lead to the challenge being placed higher on the political agenda. The union believes that the challenge has been overlooked, which has recently been expressed in the fact that a citizens' proposal from a group of apprentices for more money for vocational training has expired without having obtained sufficient support from the Danes. Therefore, a future government should now increase its focus on the problem by coming up with a solution in the government's framework, says Dansk Metal in a press release.
- We have just had a general election, which showed that there is broad support for the green transition in Denmark. But still, only 25,000 people have signed the citizens' proposal of the Apprentice Revolt that much more should be invested in our vocational education. I am afraid that this says something about the fact that the vast majority have not yet realized that we cannot make the green transition if we do not get many more skilled workers within a very short time. Therefore, we will have to invest massively in vocational education - and this should be clearly stated in the upcoming government's constitution, says Kasper Palm, who is the union secretary and responsible for education in Dansk Metal.
Dansk Metal will also push for a hearing at Christiansborg and will also bring together the alliance for vocational education to get more investment in vocational education. The alliance includes a broad group of actors within education and the labor market.
- All members of parliament should be fully aware of the great challenge we have in Denmark. The politicians have been good at making the right plans, but they need to solve the green bottleneck if the plans are to become a reality. If we don't have the skilled workers who will expand the district heating network, create intelligent ventilation and build the wind turbines, then it won't be possible. And that requires massive investments in vocational training, says Kasper Palm.
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