News February 3, 2023 The twin transition in transport – how to make it just for manufacturing and transport service workers On 31 January and 1 February, industriAll Europe and the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) hosted the first set of workshops within the joint EU-funded project on Building a Just Transition towards a Smart and Sustainable Mobility. The goal was to understand better the trends, impacts and challenges of the twin transition and propose strategies to guarantee a fair and just transition for all workers.
News February 2, 2023 No fish products made with forced labour on the EU market The social partners call for the EC Regulation prohibiting products manufactured by violating human and workers’ rights on the EU market to include fish products.
News February 2, 2023 Adoption of EP report on EWCs: Good news for millions of workers in transnational companies The European Trade Union Federations (ETUFs), EFBWW, EFFAT, EPSU, ETF, industriAll and Uni Europa, representing millions of workers and supporting over 20,000 European Works Council members every day, jointly welcome the adoption by the European Parliament of the own-initiative legislative report on the revision of the European Works Council Directive. It is time for the European Commission to act!
News February 1, 2023 Amazon workers start 17-day strike to protest Barcelona site closure Amazon plans to transfer 800 workers affected by the closure of their Barcelona centre to distant locations. The company must continue dialogue with unions in good faith to find a fair solution.
News February 1, 2023 EU ATM Social Partners agree Joint Declaration on the Future of Social Dialogue In a Joint Declaration on the Future of Social Dialogue, EU ATM Social Partners – ATCEUC, CANSO and ETF – engage in addressing together the forthcoming challenges of air traffic management.
Statement February 1, 2023 European trade unions call out UK government’s attack on working people The European trade union movement stands firmly in solidarity with the British trade union movement on the TUC’s national ‘protect the right to strike’ day and every day.
Issues Supply Chain Crisis – Current State of Play ETF takes a look at the hows and why of the supply chain crisis.
Press Release EU takes long-overdue first step towards fair platform work Early signals indicate that tomorrow’s European Commission proposal on the platform work will in part make good on their promise to improve the working conditions of platform workers. ETF reacts…
Issues Green and Social Transport Social issues and environmental concerns are two sides of the same coin. Fighting social dumping and climate action is one and the same struggle.
Issues Protecting the workers behind online platforms Platform work is challenging existing labour laws and regulations protecting workers. In this new setting, the ETF and its affiliates are fighting to ensure fair working conditions and employee status for platform workers.