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Uber’s White Paper needs a rewrite: platform workers are employees!
Uber’s recently published “Better Deal” White Paper gets two things right: independent workers across Europe deserve better, and Europe needs more jobs. On everything else, however, Uber completely
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FedEx – Time to deliver for your workers!
ETF and ITF, the voices of transport workers worldwide and in Europe have launched a petition to call on FedEx-TNT Europe management to stop job cuts and engage with workers’ representatives.
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Plans for Alitalia successor must protect jobs and working conditions
Alitalia employs more than 10,000 people in Italy, and its fate will impact not only all of their lives but also the broader Italian aviation, transport and tourism industries. To stimulate the discussion on the future of the company and allow unions to seek answers, the ETF brought together representatives of Italian unions and DG COMP on Wednesday.
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Recovery and Resilience Facility: Transport Keeps Us Going Forward
With the slogan “Transport for EU Recovery”, ETF, together with 31 organisations has issued a Statement on the Recovery and Resilience Facility to jointly call on Member States and the European Commission to ensure that the transport sector receives adequate consideration in the National Recovery and Resilience Plans.
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Social partners in ports call for renewal of active and meaningful dialogue with the Commission
Despite the difficult and unpredictable circumstances the ports industry has been dealing with last year, the European Commission has not shown the commitment and engagement that social dialogue deserves. In response, European social partners in ports are urging the Commission to assume responsibility and commit to real debate.
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ETF and ITF outline demands for mandatory due diligence in reply to European Commission Consultation
The European Commission has launched the initiative to consider introducing a European legal framework on sustainable corporate governance, covering due diligence and directors’ duty of care. In response to the Commission’s public consultation, ETF and ITF outlined their demands for mandatory due diligence.
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Inclusion of frontline aviation workers in vaccination plans is key to European economic recovery
Several European social partners in civil aviation released a joint statement highlighting the importance of the aviation industry for European economic recovery and calling for frontline aviation workers to be included in national vaccination plans.
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ETF Talks – EYR 2021: Boosting rail with railway workers on board?
The third episode of ETF Talks focusses on the European Year of Rail 2021, the role of rail in contributing to climate goals, why policies have failed so far, the effects of social shortcomings of the sector on railways workers and what needs to be done to boost railways with its workforce on board.
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3F secures ground-breaking national sectoral agreement for delivery riders
Danish trade union 3F and the employers’ organisation Dansk Erhverv reached a national sectoral agreement covering Just Eat's Riders. But this victory is only the beginning: '3F and the European trade union movement will not stop fighting for platform workers’ rights!'
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Deliveroo must act after another rider killed on the job
Romulo Sta Ana, a Filipino father of two, is the latest food delivery rider to be killed on the job. The ITF and ETF offer our condolences to the family of Romulo Sta Ana and call on digital labour platforms to be regulated to put an end to the disastrous race-to-the-bottom that has harmed far too many workers already.
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#HoldBizAccountable: Workers demand accountability for rights violations
Workers are joining the fight to #HoldBizAccountable. Make your voice heard and demand accountability for rights violations and environmental destruction!
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ETF pledges full cooperation with European Labour Authority to rid transport of social dumping
During a meeting with ELA today, ETF stressed that workers need an active Authority that meets trade union expectations as soon as possible. ELA must become an effective body that fights cross-border fraud via joint inspections, cooperation and exchange of information between the Member States.
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