Fair Transport for Europe!

In less than 2 months, the Fair Transport campaign of the European Transport Workers’ Federation will reach a rip-roaring conclusion. Between 22 and 27 March, European transport workers will organise a transnational action week. Culminating in a huge joint demonstration in Brussels on Wednesday 27 March, an unbreakable chain of actions and events across Europe will […]

Members of FNV Havens – a Dutch ETF affiliate – from the container and lashing sectors gathered to demand that employers and institutions take urgent action to make sure that port jobs are quality jobs. In preparation of the European action week for our Fair Transport campaign that will take place in March, FNV Havens […]

Today the court in Amsterdam ruled in two lawsuits filed by trade union FNV against food delivery company Deliveroo. The judge upheld the FNV’s claims in both cases. The union filed a lawsuit against Deliveroo because the company engaged in bogus self-employed. In 2018, the company decided that all couriers had to become become freelancers […]

On 10 January the Transport Committee of the European Parliament will hold a hugely important vote. Their agreement about the EU Mobility Package will have a major impact on bus and truck drivers’ work and rest schedules, on their wages, and on the safety of all road users in Europe. Ahead of this vote, the […]

On 12-13 December, the ETF Youth Committee gathered in Istanbul, Turkey, to discuss the challenges facing young transport workers across Europe. As part of our Fair Transport campaign, the committee also met with a delegation of young Turkish workers. Hailing from different parts of the transport sector, 10 highly-committed young workers representing ETF-affiliated unions BTS, […]