Road industry’s bad players scared straight by Mobility Package
End of 2020, seven Member States – Bulgaria, Cyprus, Hungary, Lithuania, Malta, Poland and Romania – challenged the Mobility Package in court. 15 court cases were opened against the Council and the European Parliament who in July last year adopted the Package with a large majority. Such action just goes to show how important this Package is, in restoring social and economic fair play in the road transport sector which for decades had been ripped apart by social fraud, human slavery and unfair competition between operators.
Solidarity with Italy’s Amazon logistics workers striking for fair working conditions
Today, Italian unions are making history. For the first time, Amazon’s ENTIRE logistics chain is on strike in Italy for 24 hours. Amazon is outright refusing to negotiate a supply chain collective bargaining agreement that would also cover their subcontractors.
ETF stands by Finnish railway workers and their fight to protect their working conditions
The ETF lends all of its support to Finnish railway union RAU and the Finnish locomotive drivers striking in Helsinki right now to protest against government-owned railway company VR and its attempts to weaken collective agreements and working conditions.
ETF’s 5 million transport workers say ‘Protect the new European Mobility Package for fair road transport!’
The ETF is calling for broad support for the Mobility Package and strongly advise the 7 European countries attacking it to reconsider and withdraw from legal action.
IWT stakeholders to hold Budapest Sessions on the future of the industry
PLATINA3, a multi-stakeholder project that the ETF is part of, is holding its first event on 7-8 April in Budapest.
Shaping digital transformation in public transport: ETF and UITP’s joint recommendations for a just transition
ETF and UITP, social partners in urban public transport, adopt joint recommendations on digital transformation and social dialogue in urban public transport in Europe.