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The ITF 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 Solidarity Items

16 Mar 2010
Solidarity with British Airways workers

12 Feb 2010
Solidarity with the TDWU in Mumbai

02 Feb 2010
Protest Costa Rican government’s anti-union tactics

29 Oct 2009
State Railway Corporation of Thailand sacks union leaders for protesting at unsafe working conditions


Previous Solidarity Items

13 Jan 2010
Act now for UPS workers in Germany

06 Nov 2009
Support DHL workers’ demands for Respect

11 Sep 2009
Show your solidarity for LOT workers

11 Sep 2009
Take action for trade unionists charged in Turkey

09 Sep 2009
Urgent appeal for solidarity support for jet airways’ pilots

08 Sep 2009
Protest against DOWA LINE, anti-union shipping company in Japan

28 Jul 2009
Protest now against the dismissal of aviation union leaders in Poland

07 May 2009
Solidarity for locked out cabin crew

02 Apr 2009
Say no to repression of workers this May Day in Turkey

28 Dec 2008
Iran: protest against arrest of another bus union leader

19 Dec 2008
Support striking passenger security workers and guards in Budapest airport

10 Dec 2008
ITF calls for support for the Hebei Two

14 Aug 2008
ITF supports call for humanitarian relief for victims of military conflict in Georgia / South Ossetia

08 May 2008
Demand the release of imprisoned road transport union members in Turkey

19 Dec 2007
Act now for Mahmoud Salehi

14 Sep 2007
Support National Frozen Foods Workers

31 Aug 2007
Workers in TNT Australia need your support

11 Jul 2007
Free Mansour Osanloo

16 Mar 2007
Solidarity for IAM Day of Action

14 Feb 2007
Sign the petition to support Tehran bus workers

12 Feb 2007
Protest trade union and civil rights violations at LOT Polish Airlines

26 Jan 2007
Support BA cabin crew

16 Jan 2007
Outrage over murder of Pedro Zamora

12 Jan 2007
Defend sacked Turkish Airlines workers against victimisation

10 Jan 2007
Solidarity for sacked union leaders in Yemen

13 Dec 2006
Protest against FirstGroup's vicitimisation of school bus driver

29 Nov 2006
Australia, 30 November action day

23 Nov 2006
Iranian bus union leader re-arrested

20 Oct 2006
Solidarity for workers taking action at Ryanair

13 Oct 2006
Police and security guards brought in as strike breakers in Costa Rican ports

11 Oct 2006
Guatemalan Dockworkers Under Attack As Police Invade Port

25 Jul 2006
Organising Attacked in Turkey

01 Jun 2006
Campaign against cabin crew retirement

18 May 2006
Support workers at Blue Diamond Growers

15 May 2006
Boycott Pakistan International Airlines

27 Apr 2006
Support ITF dockers' affiliate facing closure and intimidation

24 Apr 2006
Help support justice at TNT

13 Apr 2006
Union Busting at Diamond Offshore

24 Mar 2006
Civil mobilisation of Greek seafarers

22 Mar 2006
South African Transport & Allied Workers' Union, Transnet dispute

06 Jan 2006
Tehran Bus Dispute

22 Dec 2005
Civil aviation workers in Indonesia

16 Dec 2005
Civil aviation in Pakistan

10 Nov 2005
Arrest of 200 trade unionists in Zimbabwe

08 Nov 2005
Australian Govt new anti-union laws

26 Oct 2005
Support Alaska Airlines Workers

10 Oct 2005
Support Varig

09 Sep 2005
Global Unions Statement on Millenium Goals

05 Sep 2005
Solidarity: IAM and Boeing

02 Sep 2005
Hurricane Katrina

25 Aug 2005
Statement on ILO Convention 137

16 Aug 2005
Gate Gourmet Dispute at Heathrow

05 Aug 2005
Discrimination of Argentinian cabin crew member

04 Aug 2005
Indonesia: Cabin crew dispute

08 Jul 2005
Terrorist attacks in London

24 May 2005
Murder of seafarers’ trade union organiser

13 May 2005
Tugboat strike in the Port of Casablanca, Morocco

31 Mar 2005
Dispute between CONTTMAF, Brazil and Petrobras SA

03 Mar 2005
Trade union rights at Hoverspeed Limited

24 Feb 2005
Discriminatory practices at MAS

10 Feb 2005
Defend Trade Union and democratic rights in Nepal

04 Jan 2005
2004 Tsunami Disaster Information

25 Oct 2004
Australian airline workers threaten strike

05 Oct 2004
Honduran trade union leader found innocent

03 Sep 2004
Strike Warning at LSG Sky Chefs in Sweden

02 Jul 2004
Police force workers out in Costa Rica air traffic control dispute



News online

04 Mar 2010
Right to strike over social dumping backed by key ILO body
The top legal body of the International Labour Organization (ILO) has ruled that judgements by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in 2006 were contrary to the most fundamental ILO standard - convention 87 on freedom of association. The ECJ decided...

12 Feb 2010
Workers in protest march over relocation of DHL jobs
More than 250 DHL workers marched through the streets of the Belgian capital recently following a call from union confederations. The workers, who participated in the demonstration on 29 January, joined thousands of participants who were demanding...

Press releases

15 Feb 2010
Iran govt latest jail move ‘deliberate insult to UN’
The ITF has condemned the latest reported targeting of imprisoned trade union leader Mansour Osanloo by the Iranian authorities. Sources within Iran are reporting that Osanloo and another political prisoner at the Rajai Shar prison have been...

12 Feb 2010
Here’s the evidence, now Maersk must act
The ITF today supplied Møller-Maersk with further proof for its assertion that for years one of its subcontractors in India has got away with violent attacks on its workers, and demanded that the Danish multinational finally sever its ties with the...


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