On 22–23 October 2026, the ETF held a regional workshop in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as part of the EU co-funded project Empowering Transport Workers in Central and Eastern Europe (UNIONDRIVE). Around 35 trade union representatives from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia took part in the two-day programme, which combined exchanges on the situation in the aviation sector with practical training on trade union mobilisation, collective bargaining and European labour legislation.

On 22-23 October, the European social partners for sea fisheries met in The Hague to continue their joint work under the EU-funded Pillars of the Sea 4 project. Bringing together representatives of workers and employers, the meeting marked another important step in the common effort to strengthen the social sustainability of the fishing sector across Europe.

The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF), the European Barge Union (EBU) and the European Skippers Organisation (ESO) signed a new joint declaration on preventing and eliminating violence and harassment in inland waterway transport on 21 October 2026 in Brussels at the meeting of the Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee.