European Transport Workers' Federation
Budget
€700 — €0
EP Access
16
accredited persons
Staff
24
24 FTE
EU Grants
€156,903
Mission & Goals
The ETF was founded in 1998 to defend transport and fisheries workers' interests at European level and to make representations on their behalf to EU bodies. The ETF represents more than 230 member organisations in 41 countries, for over 5 million members. The ETF is the European branch of the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) and the transport branch of the ETUC. The ETF is the European social partner that represents transport and fisheries workers in seven sectoral social dialogue committees: maritime transport, civil aviation, fisheries, railways, road, ports and inland waterways.
EU Legislative Interests
Clean Industrial Deal Sustainable Transport Investment Plan Sustainable Tourism Strategy Maritime Industrial Policy EU Port Strategy Revision of Regulation 1008/2008 Quality Jobs Roadmap EU Preparedness Strategy EU Ocean Pact European Pillar of Social Rights
Communication Activities
EU Funded Projects: EASA Capacity Building (VS/2017/0333) Promotion of the Toolbox for Succesful Social Dialogue in ATM (VS/2017/0364) ETF Automation & Digitalisation Toolkit (VS/2018/0366) Moving the CEE Transport Trade Unions forward (VS/2018/0367) Mapping of Maritime Professionals - Towards a full-scale European data collection system (VS/2019/0006) Pillasr of the Sea 2: project implementing part of the SSDC work programme (VS/2019/0013) Digital Transformation and Social Dialogue in Urban Public Transport in Europe (VS/2019/0032) Building European network of young workers in ports and maritime transport (VS/2019/0303) Trade unions and drivers for safer roads in Europe (VS/2019/0305) Preparing the ETF for Global Changes in Transport (VS/2019/0304) A results based approach to social dialogue: supporting the implementation of the work programme 2018-2020 of the sectoral dialogue committee in civil aviation (CASSDC) and beyond (VS/2020/0049) Social conditions in bus and coach transport in Europe (VS/2020/0501) Employability in the railway sector in the light of digitalisation and automation (EDA rail) (VS/2020/0008) A fair and sustainable waterborne transport in Europe : the maritime, inland navigation, port and fishing sectors of the ETF build human-centered responses to global threats (VS/2021/0024) Developing Transport Workers Expertise for Fair Transport and Strong unions (VS/2021/0030) SOC PL101048319 Land Transport SOC PL 101048649 Not Going Back SOC PL 101052491 European Works Council SOC PL 101192215 UNIONDRIVE SOC PL 101192196 TU4BPT
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
The ETF is affiliated to the International Transport Workers' Federation, the European Trade Union Confederation and it is member of Eurocadres.
Organisation Members
The list of ETF affiliates can be found here: https://www.etf-europe.org/about-us/our-affiliates/
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.