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Airport legislation up for review

The Commission has initiated a fitness check of key airport regulations. If you agree that there are better ways to organise ground handling, to ensure the operational stability and social resilience, please engage and help us make sure that the voice of frontline workers and trade unions is heard. We show you how to take part in the survey sent out by DG Move.

News
4 Jun 2025

Artificial intelligence in ports: a challenge for jobs and workers’ rights (ENG/IT)

It’s vital for unions to build the skills needed to tackle the challenges of new technologies — and for workers to be supported as they acquire new skills for the digital transition. The ETF is actively working on this, ensuring that innovation and workers’ rights move forward together. To support trade unions in this effort, we are happy to share this AI bargaining toolkit for ports.

News
3 Jun 2025

ETF Marks Pride Month: Fighting for LGBTQI+ Equality in Transport Workplaces

As Pride Month begins, the ETF reaffirms its strong commitment to equality, dignity, and respect for LGBTQI+ workers in the European transport sector. Despite legal progress in many countries, LGBTQI+ people – particularly trans and intersex individuals – still face daily harassment, hate crimes and discrimination. Much of this happens in public spaces and at the workplace: spaces where everyone should feel safe.

News
3 Jun 2025

ETF welcomes UK rail renationalisation: time to end the privatisation experiment across Europe

The European Transport Workers’ Federation strongly welcomes the UK government’s decision to bring South Western Railway back into public ownership – the first step in reversing the country’s decades-long experiment with rail privatisation. This marks a significant political shift and a renewed recognition that public transport must serve people, not profit.

Statement
28 May 2025