European Transport Workers’ Federation (European Transport Workers’ Federation, ETF)

The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) is a pan-European trade union organization that brings together transport workers’ unions from the European Union, the European Economic Area and Central and Eastern Europe. The ETF was created at its founding congress in Brussels on June 14-15, 1999, but it has its roots in pan-European transport trade union organizations with a 60-year history. Today ETF represents more than 5 million transport workers from over 200 transport unions and 38 European countries.

The Trade Union of Railway and Transport Builders of Ukraine is one of the founders and a member of the European Transport Workers’ Federation since 1999. The interests of our trade union in the European Transport Workers’ Federation are represented by its Chairman Oleksiy Semerun, who is a member of the ETF Executive Committee.

In 2022, the Chairman of the Trade Union of Railway and Transport Builders of Ukraine was elected to the ETF Executive Committee for a sixth term.