by Alejandro Martínez Treceño | Mar 25, 2020 | News
We would like to thank you all for the work you are carrying out in these very difficult circumstances in which we find ourselves. Thanks to you, many workers are being able to get to their jobs, guaranteeing the supply and the infrastructures that maintain us, contributing to the world not being paralyzed and that, together, we can get out of this crisis.
Throughout these hard days, we are receiving stories from many countries in Europe. People committed to the health of their colleagues, responsible in the use of the means provided, involved in keeping their job and hands disinfected, and over all these stories of effort and positivity, actions that make us feel proud to belong to a kind of work like ours is, to be a train driver.
And because of that…
Thanks for being responsible
Thank you for your commitment
Thanks for your involvement
Thank you for your effort
There are many people that, like us, must be providing their services and thanks to our effort, many of them can continue coming to their work to carry out those essential tasks like ours. Without our effort, nothing would be possible.
Thanks for not giving up.
by Alejandro Martínez Treceño | Mar 6, 2020 | News
This is our tribute for the women who drive our trains everyday throughout Europe. Thanks to all of you!
by Alejandro Martínez Treceño | Feb 13, 2020 | News
Yesterday, February 13th 2020, the collaboration agreement between ALE and ETF (European Transport Worker´s Federation) was finally signed. It is a historic moment because the two european organizations wich combine the representation of almost all the train drivers, understand that it is time to give greater strength to the trade union movement in Europe.
The strength of the ALE member unions, together with the support provided by the European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions (CESI), has made it possible to initiate a collaborative process, equally with ETF, that leads us to strengthen and improve social, labor and economic conditions for the train drivers, ensuring adequate training standards and that are to achieve the great objective of ensuring greater safety in the rail system through the Just Culture.
At a time of change, due to the transposition of the 4th Railway Package, we have to focus our efforts on getting European institutions to see, now more than ever, that train drivers are united, regardless of the organization to which they belong, and that we will continue working for the welfare of our collective.
by Alejandro Martínez Treceño | Sep 24, 2019 | News
On September 19 and 20, the Board of Directors of the European Train Drivers Union was held in Madrid, Spain.
In it, the President of ALE, Juan Jesús García Fraile, has talked and discussed the course of our Organization, the present and future challenges that arise in the short term.
Safety and Liberalization of passenger transport by rail have been the main topics of debate.
Many times we have remarked that Safety in Railways focuses our efforts and once again we, all the ALE member unions, jointly emphasize that an adequate transposition of the 4th Railway Package must be made, where the Safety Directive takes a vital relevance for the representation of the traindrivers in Europe.
We have marked the line to follow and proposed different actions both at European and national level, always keeping in mind the improvement of the working, social and economic conditions of the traindrivers.
by Alejandro Martínez Treceño | Jun 22, 2019 | News
Last 21st, the European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions (CESI) invited us to participate as representatives of train drivers in Europe to a seminar to deal, among the different affiliated Spanish unions, with the problem of violence at work.
Violence at work, especially against public sector workers, is a growing phenomenon in Spain and in most EU countries. According to the European Survey of companies on new and emerging risks (ESENER 2) EU-OSHA of 2014, 67% of the Spanish personnel in the education sector and in social services has faced a conflictive public in their daily work. In terms of public administration, the figure stands at 62% according to the ESENER 2 survey.
The ALE, through this type of events, intends to share the current situation in our sector with different sectors, identify good and best practices and manifest the demands of the violence that train drivers suffer in their jobs, in political and legislative demands clear at all levels.
It is necessary to develop effective prevention tools and more efficient legislation that becomes into greater safety and health in the workplace.
In our attempt to make the train drivers community visible at European level and participate in all those forums where safety, the social, labor and economic conditions of train drivers can be affected in some way, we will continue to emphasize that Europe has, in the ALE, the voice and the representation of train drivers.
