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New ETF Road Transport Steering Committee

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The Chair and the Steering Committee of the ETF Road Transport Section for the 2022 – 2027 period were elected – we look forward to furthering the rights of professional drivers together!

 

 

The Steering Committee is composed as follows:

 

Chair:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Roberto Parrillo, ACV/CSC-Transcom, Belgium

Vice-Chairs:

  • Elisa Gigliarelli, FILT-CGIL, Italy
  • Tom Peeters, BTB-ABVV, Belgium

Chair of Sectoral Social Dialogue:
Olivier Etheve, CFDT ROUTE FRANCE, France

Passenger Working Group:

  • Chair: Guy Van Hyfte, CSC Services Publics/ACV Openbare Diensten, Belgium
  • Vice-Chair: Karl Delfs, vida, Austria

Freight and Logistic Working Group:

  • Chair: Stefan Thyroke, ver.di, Germany
  • Vice-Chair: Francisco Jose Vegas Rosado, FSC-CCOO, Spain

Women’s Representative:
Liesbet Verboven, ACV-CSC Transcom, Belgium

Youth Representative:
Lyubomir Drenski, FTTUB, Bulgaria

Ex-officio Member/European Vice Chair of the ITF RD Section:
Flemming Overgaard, 3F, Denmark

Co-opted Members:

  • Maurizio Diamante, Fit CISL, Italy
  • Adrian Jones, Unite the Union, UK
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