aviation

Transport workers’ conditions are at an all-time low while the cost of living is at an all-time high, bringing a new wave of strikes in transport. Transport workers are determined to get their due: improved working conditions and fair pay to cope with the cost-of-living crisis.

This summer aviation is in serious industrial problems, and that is a certainty by now. The ETF is supporting all industrial action of its aviation members this summer and expects there to be much more disruption and industrial action as the summer develops.

With the new campaign "Stronger, Safer, Together – Always," EASA aims to encourage the Commercial Air Transport community to share and discuss its common safety challenges

Welcome to our new Steering Committee of the ETF Aviation Section!

One of the most important issues we want to raise with our ETF Civil Aviation position on the European Commission's Fit for 55 package is just transition and how environmental and social sustainability can go hand in hand if workers’ needs and voice are taken into account.

It seems to be the same old story that inevitably goes back again and again to the low-cost Hungarian carrier Wizz Air. Just this time, its actions are outrageous as they are directly linked to the war in Ukraine.

ETF, ETUC, EFFAT, UNI Europa, IndustriAll Europe and ECA welcome the Toulouse Declaration on future sustainability and decarbonisation in aviation, which was adopted at the Aviation Summit, a flagship event organised during the French presidency of the Council of the EU.

The Italian authorities have to find an integrative solution to the Air Italy crisis, putting the workers' wellbeing at the core of the negotiations.