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Welcome to the new Steering Committee of the ETF Dockers Section for the 2022 – 2027 period!

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The Chair and the Steering Committee of the ETF Dockers Section for the 2022 – 2027 period were elected during the Dockers Section meeting, held on 14 February 2022.

Based on the votes of our members, the Dockers Section Steering Committee is composed as follows:

Chair:

  • Marc Loridan, BTB-ABVV, Belgium

Vice-Chairs:

  • Niek Stam, FNV Havens, The Netherlands
  • Maya Schwiegershausen-Güth, Ver.di, Germany

Women’s Representative:

  • Hatice Pantir, LİMAN-İŞ SENDİKASI, Turkey

Young Workers’ Representative:

  • Nick Loridan, BTB-ABVV, Belgium

Ordinary members: 

  • Karsten Kristensen, 3F, Denmark
  • Angelo Manicone, FILT CGIL, Italy
  • Mark Hughes, Unite the Union, UK
  • José Jorge Garcia Faerna, FSC-CCOO, Spain
  • Oleg Grygoriuk, MTWTU, Ukraine

The mandate of the ETF Dockers Section new management team will start after the 6th ETF Congress, which will take place in May 2022.

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