How to campaign

How to campaign for Safe Rates

 Many unions are already working to protect drivers from downward pressure on pay and conditions and the unsafe effects of dangerously competitive business models. For example, your union may have negotiated clauses in collective bargaining agreements. You may be using bargaining strategies that seek to equalise standards across supply chains and industries. By doing so, you are already implementing Safe Rates principles. 
 

SAFE RATES CAMPAIGN PILLARS


The ITF’s Safe Rates Campaign Manual and Toolkit can assist you in building on these foundations towards winning Safe Rates systems and agreements. The manual takes union campaigners through the five pillars of a comprehensive Safe Rates Campaign
 

Safe Rates legal systems and rates models 


Outreach and campaign materials


Lobbying and negotiations support

  • Employers brief
  • Model Charter
  • Template letter to companies
  • Template letter to government


Background materials

 

Downloads
Resources

Safe Rates campaign toolkit

The ITF has launched the global campaign for Safe Rates to deliver fair and safe standards for road transport workers and achieve a fair, safe, sustainable, and inclusive industry. This toolkit will
Resources

ILO Road Transport Guidelines Brief

The Guidelines are the product of several years of work by the ITF, beginning with preparation for an earlier meeting on safety and health in the road transport sector, held in 2015. At this meeting