Crisis management in ATM Social Dialogue The European Social Partners’ revised toolbox for successful social dialogue in the ATM sector is out. With this updated set of tools, ETF, ATCEUC and CANSO want to build together an effective social dialogue in air traffic management. News 18 Jan 2023
The ETF is supporting its aviation members across Europe in industrial action during the summer and expects the situation to get much worse This summer aviation is in serious industrial problems, and that is a certainty by now. The ETF is supporting all industrial action of its aviation members this summer and expects there to be much more disruption and industrial action as the summer develops. Press Release 20 Jun 2022
P&O Ferries sackings: unions trigger UN investigation over UK’s failure to enforce laws that protect workers A number of unions and global union federations have written to the International Labour Organization (ILO — part of the UN) asking it to urgently intervene on behalf the 800 seafarers who were illegally fired and cruelly mistreated by P&O Ferries Press Release 11 May 2022
Collapse of EU Air Traffic Management social dialogue – ETF – ATCEUC joint press release resource 26 Apr 2022
Collapse of EU Air Traffic Management social dialogue Successful implementation of the Single European Sky directly depends on the adoption of a social and human dimension roadmap for the SES that can only be achieved with the full commitment of all parties. Press Release 26 Apr 2022
There is no place in Belgium for breaching the aviation workers’ rights The Belgian cabin crew working for the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair are on strike from today until the 24th of April, after the negotiations with Ryanair management on a new collective agreement on wages have miserably failed. News 22 Apr 2022
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. Press Release 7 Feb 2022
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 News 17 Jan 2022
A brother in need can always count on our solidarity! 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 Statement 18 Dec 2021
When you’re haunted by the voices you want to silence Spreading fear may generate some complete obedience for some time. But it will not be forever. The voices of those you are trying to silence will be heard again. News 16 Dec 2021