EDC is a unitary union of European Dockers and Dockworkers who join forces to ensure that all Dockers and Dockworkers are and always will be treated fairly at work, that their working conditions are decent, safe, and improved when required, that their rights are fully respected, and that their working future is justly preserved.
For this, through the information exchange between members, and under their common value “all together as one”, facts and ports’ reality are analyzed and compared, and actions’ proposals, at members’ national level or at European scale, are developed.
To achieve these goals, EDC calls on all Dockers and Dockworkers to become more numerous in organizing, discussing, and acting within the European Dockworkers Council. Social, economic, and cultural progress demands it. It urges them to mobilize and take all measures to ensure that EDC keeps and strengthens its unity, fighting spirit and solidarity.
- Promoting the unity of the working class, showing respect for cultural, ideological, religious differences or any other kind of judgement, EDC reaffirms its commitment to European and international relations and cooperation, and to the fraternity with progressive and democratic organisations.
- Influencing European decision-making: the EU Treaty obliges the European Commission to consult the European social partners on all proposals regarding employment and social policy.
- Representing workers through the European sectorial social dialogue committee which brings together representatives from the trade unions and the employers’ organisations (the European social partners) and involves discussions, negotiations and joint actions. Social dialogue is enshrined in the Treaty and is a fundamental part of the European social model.