Solidarity

The ITF/ETF was created out of solidarity between striking workers and we still believe that the best way for transport workers to build global structures is by backing other workers in their struggles.

Current Issues:

2 November 2006: ETF shares concerns of Moroccan trade union Union des Syndicats UMT des Transports over the possible dismissal of 2000 dock workers

17 May 2006: ETF supports the Port Workers' Union at Khour Al-Zubeir Port in Iraq

9 May 2006: Romanian port workers’ union FNSP protests against the growing informal work in Romanian seaports

22 June 2005: Railway Strike in Romania

9 February 2005: ETF supports the railway trade union action in FYR Macedonia!

News online

Iran Workers’ Action Day in front of the Iranian Embassy in Brussels 6 March 2008
Unionists and human rights’ supporters expressed solidarity with Iranian workers
Unionists and human rights’ supporters joined forces today to call for the release of imprisoned Iranian bus workers’ union leader Mansour Osanloo and Kurdish unionist Mahmoud Salehi, both detained... more >>

22 January 2008
Port workers’ deaths prompt unions’ call for safety
The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) has called on the European Commission to consider health and safety (H&S) as top priorities within the EU port policy. This is the core message of an... more >>

Press releases

10 June 2008
ITF speech to ILO tomorrow: ‘market forces can’t deliver us from crises’
In a speech to the ILO (International Labour Organization) in Geneva tomorrow, 11 June 2008, ITF General Secretary David Cockroft will underline the importance of trade unions, cooperation and a search for social justice in a world threatened by climate change, food price rises and economic uncertainty. more >>

9 May 2008
Press update: latest on An Yue Jiang

At late morning today the vessel was approximately 120 nautical miles off the coast of Namibia, in international waters, making around 8.5 knots (the slower speed than before is because it is sailing against the Benguela current). The current position as of 16:45 BST today is estimated to be due west of Walvis Bay, but well outside of Namibian territorial waters. If the An Yue Jiang continues at its current speed and course its estimated time of arrival off Cape Town will be late night on Monday 12th May. If it increases speed to 10 knots its ETA would be mid-afternoon on 12th May. more >>