Industry & sector
Who lobbies the Parliament on labour & trade unions?
Trade unions and their confederations - national, European and international - and the chambers of labour that speak for employees by law.
Organisations classified under Labour & trade unions account for 2,198 declared MEP meetings across the 2016–2026 full record for current MEPs, and the business lobbyists among them self-report about <€0.1M a year in EU lobbying budgets. (As of 7 November 2026.)
Most active organisations
| Organisation | Type | Meetings | MEPs met |
|---|---|---|---|
| EUROPEAN TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION↗ | Trade union | 409 | 117 |
| Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund↗ | Trade union | 301 | 44 |
| European Transport Workers' Federation↗ | Trade union | 102 | 50 |
| industriAll European Trade Union↗ | Trade union | 93 | 59 |
| European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions↗ | Trade union | 68 | 35 |
| Fagligt Fælles Forbund↗ | Trade union | 63 | 8 |
| European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions↗ | Trade union | 62 | 37 |
| Industriegewerkschaft Metall↗ | Trade union | 61 | 18 |
| European Federation of Journalists↗ | Trade union | 59 | 37 |
| Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie↗ | Trade union | 59 | 15 |
| Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT)↗ | Trade union | 57 | 10 |
| European Federation of Public Service Unions↗ | Trade union | 55 | 34 |
Also active here: organisations whose main sector is elsewhere but which this site also places in labour & trade unions - Confederation of Finnish Industries EK, Responsible Business Alliance, Bundesarbeitgeberverband Chemie e.V., European Biosafety Network, International Federation of Journalists.
MEPs most met by labour & trade unions organisations
Across the 2016–2026 full record for current MEPs. A member's own page counts this term only, so its sector figures can be lower.
Sector labels are this site's own: reviewers chose the sector for 51 of the 78 profiled organisations here, and the other 27 carry a keyword classification by this site over organisation names, goals and Register categories. See methodology.