A European Maritime Space for Socially Sustainable Shipping: The Answer to Social Dumping in the Maritime Sector
It’s time for Europe to get serious about enhancing seafarers’ living and working conditions and protecting its maritime jobs and maritime skills base!
The time has come for the European Commission and the industry to take social dumping and unfair competition out of the EU/EEA.
ETF calls on member states and the European Commission to show political will and take action for sustainable and quality shipping in Europe
A Fair and Sustainable Shipping is our proposal for a future European Maritime Space.
To start building together the foundation of such a future space, an essential aspect needs to be addressed from the very beginning: how can EU initiatives contribute to sustainable and quality shipping in Europe by promoting a race to the top instead of a race to the bottom?
Fair and sustainable waterborne transport in Europe
ETF maritime transport, inland navigation, dockers and fisheries sections build human-centred responses to global threats.
World Youth Skills Day 2020 – Skills for a resilient transport sector!
On World Youth Skills Day 2020, the ETF highlights the need for quality training, skills, room for professional development to attract young workers to the transport sector, but above all emphasises the need for decent working conditions!
European research confirms the need for innovation in maritime education
A new report of the SkillSea project confirms that digitisation and modern technologies have been rapidly changing the maritime sector in recent years. European maritime professionals, both at sea and ashore, need more digital and soft skills to stay ahead of the industry.
The future of European Shipping needs to be social!
Last week, European Shipping Week 2020 was held in Brussels, organised by the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA). This year, the ETF Maritime Transport section took part in a variety of ways, with trade union representatives from nine different countries attending and contributing to the programme.
Women transport workers discuss the impacts of digitalisation and automation on female employment
Digitalisation and automation are affecting a multitude of transport jobs in all sectors. However, jobs carried out by women are particularly at risk due to digitalisation and automation which threaten to deepen existing gender inequalities in the workplace even further.