The Commission has initiated a fitness check of key airport regulations. If you agree that there are better ways to organise ground handling, to ensure the operational stability and social resilience, please engage and help us make sure that the voice of frontline workers and trade unions is heard. We show you how to take part in the survey sent out by DG Move.

It’s vital for unions to build the skills needed to tackle the challenges of new technologies — and for workers to be supported as they acquire new skills for the digital transition. The ETF is actively working on this, ensuring that innovation and workers’ rights move forward together. To support trade unions in this effort, we are happy to share this AI bargaining toolkit for ports.

As Pride Month begins, the ETF reaffirms its strong commitment to equality, dignity, and respect for LGBTQI+ workers in the European transport sector. Despite legal progress in many countries, LGBTQI+ people – particularly trans and intersex individuals – still face daily harassment, hate crimes and discrimination. Much of this happens in public spaces and at the workplace: spaces where everyone should feel safe.

The European Transport Workers’ Federation strongly welcomes the UK government’s decision to bring South Western Railway back into public ownership - the first step in reversing the country’s decades-long experiment with rail privatisation. This marks a significant political shift and a renewed recognition that public transport must serve people, not profit.

The ETF Dockers Section is devastated by the news of the brutal missile strike on the HHLA Container Terminal in Odessa — an attack that has claimed the life of one worker and left eight others injured.

As flight numbers surge, the system designed to keep Europe’s skies safe is under growing strain. EU policies continue to demand more with less — putting safety, sustainability, and workers' wellbeing in jeopardy.

No one should fear being themselves at work—but for too many LGBTIQ+ people in Europe, that fear is still a daily reality. Nearly 1 in 5 report discrimination at work. Trade unions must take action. We demand safe, inclusive workplaces and strong EU-wide laws that truly protect everyone—on the job, in schools, and beyond. It’s time to move from promises to protection.

Despite repeated written requests for involvement and offers of talks from the European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF), the BCP has shown no interest in including those who will be working on the railway every day in its discussions. Offering social partners only written exchanges or retrospective information is insufficient. This approach fails to provide the urgently needed transparency and social dialogue.

ETF and Europêche urge the Commission to adopt a socially inclusive, future-proof MFF that recognises the strategic role of fishers in ensuring food security, sustainable coastal development, and resilience across Europe’s maritime regions.

Between 2023 and mid- 2025 the ETF carried out a project on women in transport, looking at the green and digital transformation of the sector (twin transition), its impact on women employment and possible opportunities for attracting more women to the transport sector.

The ETF co-signed a letter with the IRU voicing once again concerns about the lack of complete information on remuneration levels in the EU Member States. This prevents drivers from checking whether they have been paid correctly for the full range of their activities and prevents trade unions from supporting drivers’ pay claims.

The Executive Committee of the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) has this week elected Giorgio Tuti as the ETF’s new President at their meeting in Split, Croatia