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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

News

ETF invited to ELA roadshow in Belgium

The reality for many drivers in Europe remains starkly divided. During an ELA roadshow in Jabbeke, ETF and its affiliates met drivers on the ground and discussed their working and living conditions, revealing a sharp contrast between employers that respect the rules and those that continue to undermine workers' rights.
Statement

The EC Fair Labour Mobility Package, a step in the right direction

The ETF welcomes the Fair Labour Mobility Package presented yesterday by the European Commission. Mobile and non-EU workers are essential to the fabric of the internal market and the possibility to work in another EU country is an invaluable freedom. However, labour mobility only works in a spirit of fairness and upwards social convergence.