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Our focus

We are committed to building a fairer future for all transport workers.

Equality, Action, Policy, and a Just Transition are at the heart of our work. We fight for job security and against precarity, which continues to marginalise many groups of workers. By strengthening union power, we can stop employers from using crises to drive down working conditions. Together, we are working to end unfair practices and ensure a future based on solidarity, fairness, and justice.

Our focus areas

Action

Trade unions are working tirelessly to achieve improvements for working people. When our affiliates are taking to the streets, we mobilise with them. Here we stand in solidarity, listen to testimonies
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Equalities

Transport workers are a diverse community spanning different countries, sectors, and backgrounds. The ETF is committed to ensuring that every transport worker, regardless of gender, ethnicity, age
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Governance

The European Transport Workers’ Federation is a democratic federation of transport trade unions. Our policy positions, campaigns and actions are the result of democratic decision making and approval
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Just transition

The dual transformation toward sustainable mobility and digital innovation presents both opportunities and challenges for Europe's transport workers. We work to ensure that this change creates decent
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Policy

Transport and transport workers are essential to Europe. However, transport work across Europe is too often defined by low wages, long hours and poor and deteriorating working conditions. The European
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Our focus on the ground

Press release

ITF and ETF send solidarity and support to victims of tragic rail accident in Spain

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) express their profound shock at today’s serious rail accident in Toledo, Spain, and extend their deepest condolences and solidarity to everyone affected by this tragic event. Reports state that at least 64 people are believed to have died, with dozens injured – numbers that may rise.
News

ETF response to the European Commission call for evidence on training and certification standards for fishers

The European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF) has submitted its response to the European Commission's call for evidence on a future EU directive on training and certification standards for fishers. The ETF strongly supports the full transposition of the revised International Maritime Organization (IMO) STCW-F Convention into EU law and calls for ambitious legislation that covers all fishers working on EU fishing vessels.