right to strike

Hundreds of thousands of workers have been taking part in strike action across Finland in protest at the right-wing governments plans to attack workers’ rights. Prime minister Petteri Orpo of the National Coalition party plans to restrict the right to strike, to undermine the system of wage negotiation and cut unemployment benefits.

Belgian unions stand together in their fight to defend the right to strike. They will take action next week in Brussels to oppose the so-called justice bill, soon to be presented to the labour committee of the Belgian parliament. Allowing to ban demonstrators convicted of misbehaviour at demonstrations, this bill could be just the pretext to enforce an effective blanket ban on trade unions demonstrations.

The European trade union movement stands firmly in solidarity with the British trade union movement on the TUC’s national ‘protect the right to strike’ day and every day.

ETF, EPSU and ETUCE, representing millions of public service, transport and education workers across Europe, strongly condemn the UK government’s plans to legislate on minimum service levels.

We fully support what our UK unions in what they say - this legislation serves only to criminalise and punish workers, undermine democracy at the workplace, and limit the effectiveness of all types of strike action.

It is utterly unacceptable for Brussels Airlines to use such a dirty attack against its own workers. There seems to be no limit in the company's threats to put the cost of a strike they are legally entitled to organise on the worker's shoulders

In a letter addressed to the EU Commissioner, Didier Reynders, ETF asks for the immediate intervention of the European Commission, due to the Hungarian ‘government’s attempts to permanently impede the

Join us in telling the Hungarian government and Hungarian Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) to respect air traffic workers' right to strike.

Expressing support for Spanish affiliates, ETF addressed a letter to the Spanish Ministers of transport and work, as well as Basque Government, to call for mediation in the conflict between unions and employers in the Port of Bilbao.