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Pandemic of Exploitation in European Trucking

Report Published

Pandemic of exploitation in European trucking, is a joint VNB-ITF-IUF report highlighting how companies are exploiting Covid-19 to further cut transport prices, pay, conditions and health and safety in European road transport.

Long before Covid-19 hit Europe, the road transport industry was already sick, plagued by the exploitation of drivers and human rights abuses. The coronavirus pandemic, however, has exacerbated the abuse, with a pandemic of exploitation spreading through European trucking.

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