EU rules on professional qualifications and labour mobility in European inland navigation

CCNR Press Release on WORKSHOP ON BERTHS AS ELEMENT FOR A FUTURE ORIENTED INLAND NAVIGATION

ETF Inland Waterways position on automation adopted in October 2018

Speech by Nick Bramley to mark 50 years of social dialogue in inland navigation.

PowerPoint presentation given at the Mid-Term Event of the TASCS project on manning requirements in inland waterways on 29 May 2018 Rotterdam.

Social Partners for Inland Waterways – Joint letter on legislative framework for inland navigation (July 2016)

Press release on German Government paves the way for social dumping in river cruise sector

ETF/ITF Tug Conference issue solidarity statement with the Tug Workers on the Panama Canal. (2015)

ETF and ITF affiliates declare their renewed intention to engage in closer cooperation in order to tackle jointly the manifold challenges and changes affecting the sector.

ETF proposals for the work programme (2019 – 2021) of the Comité Européen pour l’Élaboration de Standards dans le Domaine de Navigation Intérieure(CESNI).

A motion to the ITF Congress (2018) about the on River Cruise Campaign.

The ETF Tug Steering Committee adopts a message of solidarity with the workers on the Panama canal – Union de Capitanes y Oficiales de Cubierta (UCOC)

Agreement on Working Time signed by the European Social Partners in inland waterways.

Agenda, presentations and conclusions from the 2017 Inland Waterways Seminar on apprenticeships.

Programme of the ETF’s 2018 Inland Waterways Seminar held 4-5 September in St. Petersburg.

Researchers’ visiting inland waterways vessels in the TASCS project produced this report about their findings.

Tug Declaration adopted by the Tug Conference on 11 March 2015

This River Cruise Campaign Booklet can be distributed to river cruise workers to raise awareness about our campaign, offer solidarity and putthem in touch with trade union contacts.

The final work programme of the Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee for Inland Waterways,  2018-19. Adopted on 16 January 2018.

Please find below:

•A statement from a member of the ETF Swiss affiliate “Nautilus International” who had worked together with one of the crew members who died in the accident (in German and English)

•The letter sent by the ETF General Secretary to the ETF IWT Section members

•Online articles about the fatal accident of the 11st of September with pictures:

oFrom br.de website (in German);

oFrom gcaptain website (in English);

oFrom Telegraph website (in English);

oFrom Dailymail website (in English).

Tug Committee declaration on tariffs (September 2015)

Inland Waterways social partners sent this joint letter to the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine (CCNR) about practical tests on simulator or on board in August 2015.