Low wages, poor conditions and unsocial working patterns, the leading causes of the current staff shortages in the aviation industry Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have been saying that a lack of available staff would be an issue in the aviation sector, and finally, it has arrived. “The industry is very much reaping what it has sown”, believes ETF Civil Aviation President Oliver Richardson. News 10 May 2022
We say NO to forced or unfair implementation of lesser working conditions The ETF makes it clear: there is still no endorsement from the Provisional Council of EUROCONTROL for the staff regulations reform and the European ATM community will not stand for a forced or unfair implementation of lesser working conditions. Press Release 4 May 2022
In focus: pilots’ working conditions An ongoing survey on pilots’ working conditions and safety aims to investigate the effects of new business models and work conditions on pilots’ health, fatigue and flight safety, linking socio-economic aspects, health and safety. News 2 May 2022
Fit for 55 package: fit for aviation workers? One of the most important issues we want to raise with our ETF Civil Aviation position on the European Commission’s Fit for 55 package is just transition and how environmental and social sustainability can go hand in hand if workers’ needs and voice are taken into account. News 16 Mar 2022
Social sustainability must be kept at the core of all future engagements part of the Toulouse declaration The ETF welcomes the Declaration on future sustainability and decarbonisation in aviation, or the so-called Toulouse declaration adopted today during the Aviation Summit under the French presidency of the Council of the EU. The Aviation Summit, a flagship event for aviation of the French Presidency, gathered EU ministers, the European Commission, the ICAO president, the Directors General of Civil Aviation, members of the European Civil Aviation Conference, and stakeholders representing the air transport in Toulouse, France. News 4 Feb 2022
The rise and the foreseen fall of a Hungarian low-cost carrier trying to build its own European Air Empire / Part II Part II – A Ukrainian story: Coincidence or deliberate action? The idea of having a trade union to represent the air transport workers within Wizz Air in Ukraine began to be shaped by some of the Wizz Air branch crew members in this country in the spring of 2020. Amongst them, Artem and Yuliia. News 18 Jan 2022
The rise and the foreseen fall of a Hungarian low-cost carrier trying to build its own European Air Empire/Part I When life outshines any movie that has ever been made! A story with Romanian and Ukrainian flavours News 17 Jan 2022
ETF asks the European Commission to urgently step in and stop the continuous illegal decisions of the Hungarian government infringing the Hungarian Air Traffic ‘Controllers’ Right to Strike News 8 Dec 2021
SAS pilots are not disposable The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) stands in solidarity with SAS pilots and their unions and condemns actions being taken by SAS that worsen income and working condition for workers News 25 Oct 2021
Solidarity in the Mediterranean sky! European and Arab world’s aviation unions’ joint Statement on the future of aviation Statement 1 Oct 2021