Inland Waterways

This webpage should help you to find relevant European social legislation related to inland waterways, as well as policy documents of the different European institutions and bodies. Finally, ETF positions on these issues are included.

The ETF “inland waterways” section brings together trade union officers and representatives of national transport trade unions, affiliated to ETF defending the interests of workers in the sector (freight transport, passenger transport in particular hotel- and cruiseships).

The section defines the ETF positions regarding EU transport policy, including relevant legislation, exerts pressure on the EU institutions and is actor in the European Sectoral Social Dialogue. It has an observer status in the CCR-ZKR (Central Rhine Commission) and has applied for a similar status in the Danube Commission.

The section has elected the following persons:

Chair	Nick BRAMLEY	Nautilus International	Switzerland
Vice-Chair	Gunter LEHNINGER	VIDA	Austria
Vice-Chair	Rob PAUPTIT	Nautilus International	The Netherlands

News online

24 Jan 2012
Transport Trade Unions taking the lead for a sustainable sector
Almost 170 transport trade unionists from 30 different countries attended the Transunion Final Conference taking place on 19 and 20 January in the International Trade Union House in Brussels. The conference, organised in the framework of the...

11 Jul 2011
Transunion Women Seminar II further improves the ETF Gender Training Package
The ‘empowerment’ module of the future ETF Gender Training Package was tested in Zagreb, at the second workshop organised on 7 and 8 July 2011 within the framework of the TRANSUNION project. This time women union representatives from the Southern...

Press releases

23 Jun 2011
Celebrating World Public Services Day
Time to put the heart back into Europe (Brussels 23 June 2011) On the occasion of World Public Services day, the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU), the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF), the European Trade Union...

04 Oct 2010
ETF Rivercruise Campaign Adresses 4,800 crew members
Starting on today, 4 October, the mobile secretariat of the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) will travel more then 6,000 km and inform approximately 4,800 river cruise workers in less than 1-month time to raise their awareness of their...