About Us

The ETF Inland Waterways section represents more than 15,000 union members in the sector consisting of 89% men and 11% women.  39 ETF affiliated unions from 22 countries organise workers in the inland waterways sector.

At its last meeting before Congress in May 2017 following persons were elected to the section’s Steering Committee:

In order to defend and improve social rights in the European Inland Waterways sector, the section carries out various activities, such as:

• Representing workers in the Rhine Commission, the European Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee for Inland Waterways, experts’ meetings, workshops, seminars, conferences and working groups;
• Organising seminars to develop European and international legislative frameworks in line with our objectives;
• Monitoring and tackling possible employers’ strategies to avoid the application of European social rights;
• Conducting and executing European projects in research and capacity building;
• Organising and coordinating European campaigns.