The value of teamwork and a good collaboration, crucial for aviation to make it through the summer
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
Investors divest from Wizz Air over its poor performance on labour rights
Danish pension fund Akademiker Pension announced today that they had sold their shares in the London-listed low-cost carrier Wizz Air, after the company failed to convince them that it was taking meaningful actions to address ongoing concerns about how it treats its workers.
Livia Spera, General Secretary of the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF), commented: “These investors called Wizz Air out for their poor performance back in October 2021, yet it took almost three months for the company to meet them to discuss why Wizz Air does not recognise unions.”
European Trade Union Representatives support Decarbonisation of Aviation and call for Social Sustainability to underpin a just transition towards Carbon-Neutrality
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 rise and the foreseen fall of a Hungarian low-cost carrier trying to build its own European Air Empire / Part II
Part II – A Ukrainian story: Coincidence or deliberate action?
The idea of having a trade union to represent the air transport workers within Wizz Air in Ukraine began to be shaped by some of the Wizz Air branch crew members in this country in the spring of 2020. Amongst them, Artem and Yuliia.
The rise and the foreseen fall of a Hungarian low-cost carrier trying to build its own European Air Empire/Part I
When life outshines any movie that has ever been made!
A story with Romanian and Ukrainian flavours
ETF and ver.di welcome German proposal on minimum pricing for flights
The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and the United Services Union (ver.di) are in favor of setting a minimum price for airline tickets at EU level
SAS pilots are not disposable
The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) stands in solidarity with SAS pilots and their unions and condemns actions being taken by SAS that worsen income and working condition for workers
Solidarity Statement with EUROCONTROL workers
Air safety goes hand in hand with workers’ rights. EUROCONTROL workers face threats of worsening working conditions in what should be Europe’s air safety nerve center.