Europe’s transport unions have never been weaker

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A discussion related by shipping journalist Justin Stares, the leading Brussels correspondent for the industry for nigh-on 15 years, and Eduardo Chagas, secretary general of the European Transport Workers Federation, on the declining power of organised labour since the European last had a “proper” socialist transport commissioner in Neil Kinnock. Since then it’s all been downhill for union-commission relationships as European mariners have become one of the rarest worker breeds while dockers’ repeated repelling of commission attempts to reform the ...