The aim of the EL network of Trade Unionists is to exchange information and experiences gathered through struggles in the different countries, and to strengthen the cooperation of trade unionists in Europe.

Main working issues of the network include:

• Public services and privatisation.
• Deregulation, especially the struggles against poverty, deregulation of the transport sector, temporary employment, working time legislation, the struggle against the Bolkestein Directive, and ambivalent self-employment.
• Migration and the equal treatment of foreign workers.
• Precarity, with a special focus on women.