European transport workers are standing up to demand quality jobs for transport workers, and a safe, reliable service. Coordinated actions by unions across Europe will show the strength of our movement against exploitation and unfair competition. That’s the Fair Transport Europe campaign.
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Fair Transport Europe is a campaign of the European Transport Workers’ Federation, which represents over 5 million transport workers across the continent.
June 15, 2018 - 08:50
The UK National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) is running a national maritime campaign called SOS2020, providing a significant contribution to the ETF Fair Transport and Fair Shipping Campaigns. The SOS2020 campaign is fighting against social dumping in UK shipping. Many UK seafarers, especially ratings, are facing more and more unfair competition which […]
Read more...May 17, 2018 - 11:38
Trade unionists in France are organising actions in support of the ETF’s Fair Shipping Campaign. This campaign, as part of Fair Transport Europe, strives for the creation of a European maritime space without social dumping and decent terms and conditions for all crew. At the moment, working conditions for crew are determined by the country […]
Read more...April 27, 2018 - 13:07
Cette lutte, c’est une lutte légitime! This struggle is a just struggle! With those words, ETF Rail President, Giorgio Tuti brought the solidarity of European trade unions to French railway workers protesting on 22 March – just days before the launch of rolling strike action against President Macron’s liberalising reforms and unjust changes in working conditions. […]
Read more...February 28, 2018 - 15:10
A meeting in Bad Goisern, Austria, saw unions from four countries discuss how to incorporate the Fair Transport Campaign into their work on railways. Meeting on 26-28 February 2018, the Steering Committee for Cross-Border Cooperation drew workers representatives from the unions OSZ (Czech Republic), SSSLO (Slovenia), EVG (Germany) and ÖGB (Austria). Due to the increasing […]
Read more...February 22, 2018 - 11:10
A Czech driver was being paid less than German minimum wage for work in Germany. He has now won his legal fight for fair treatment and received €10 000. That’s a massive victory for Fair Transport on the roads! Jiří Gabrhel was employed by a Czech subcontractor, but mainly carrying out Deutsche Post deliveries in […]
Read more...“We know that we in Greece are part of a particularly harsh neoliberal experiment, but it is just the beginning. Today in Greece, tomorrow in Europe. The whole labor system is tending to more flexible systems of work. It is an illusion for the rest of Europe to think they can escape from this fate.”
How Greece’s Busiest Port Reveals the Perils of Privatization
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Dockworkers say the same “harsh neoliberal experiment” that reduced their wages will spread to the rest of Europe.Today the European Parliament will decide whether to push ahead with its dirty compromise on the Mobility Package. Frank Moreels, President of the European Transport Workers' Federation, explains why this is such a dangerous deal.
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Frank Moreels, President of the European Transport Workers’ Federation
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Why the surprise, this is EU!
We had a small victory today! MEPs have refused to let the transport committee's grim compromises on the Mobility Package pass without further debate. Now it's time to talk about equal pay and safe levels of rest!
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DHL Express Turkey is refusing to recognise union Tümtis, ignoring basic workers’ rights nad the Turkish courts. DHL staff in Turkey have now been on strike for 300+ days, while the company intimidates and sacks union members. Yesterday a global action day demanded that DHL get to the negotiating table, and now YOU can join the fight by sending a message to DHL Express management:
JOIN THE FIGHT: bit.ly/2sUA9xM
DHL workers must have the same rights in every country! German parent company Deutsche Post-DHL has a global agreement with the International Transport Workers' Federation, but DHL in Turkey is appealing and delaying. Let’s stand in solidarity against #DHLDoubleStandards!
Read more about the action day: www.dhlblog.org
Today brought progress for fair pay in Europe, as MEPs approved the Posted Workers Directive. This guarantees workers the same pay for the same work in the same place...a big defeat for exploitation and social dumping!
But road transport is still excluded. That's why the European Transport Workers' Federation brought 500 drivers to a protest in Strasbourg today, demanding a Mobility Package that respects #FairTransport.
They met in front of the European Parliament to say NO to unfair pay and dangerous changes in driving and rest time. And they said it LOUD, with 20 MEPs joining. Next stop: a crunch vote in the Transport Committee of the European Parliament on 4 June.
This is something that has no logic to me. This directive it is from 1996. The parliament aproving it again actually it is a confirmation of the fact that this law it wasn't respected. What has changed? We just go ahead and in about another 22 years we confirm it again because again the law wasn't respected? What is the point of having laws and just claim that the workers have rights while nobody respects their rights? What is the point of having laws if everyone can choose to respect them or not? We can do that even without laws. And the last question: what is the point of having governments, parliament and all the other institutions if the laws have no use?
