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Platform workers: It's time for rights
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Women leaders build change
ITF women leaders meeting in London last week pledged to continue building union power, denouncing discrimination, and challenging neo-liberal austerity policies.
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ITF urges international solidarity for DHL India workers
The ITF has sent a message urging affiliates in its global DHL network to act in support of DHL India activists and their union in their struggle against management’s anti-union and anti-worker onslaught.
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ITF warns Agility Logistics - and tells ITF family to be vigilant
“We are working 24/7. When it comes to accidents we just take care of ourselves. When it comes to payment, it’s very little. We have families and we can’t make it with this salary," explained Ronald, an Agility Logistics trucker, to an ITF investigative team, in Kenya from 27 March to 2 April to look into the Kuwaiti-owned company's treatment of its workforce.
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Inland transport unions celebrate success
The reach and power of ITF road transport and railway unions were on show this week as representatives from 50 unions in 30 countries met in London for steering committee meetings.
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ITF investigates labour rights abuses on Thai fishing vessels
An ITF delegation has boarded industrial fishing vessels landing their catch in Songkhla port, Southern Thailand this week, as part of an investigation into labour rights abuses.
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Unions worldwide welcome steps to resolve Kenya truck drivers’ call for union rights
Global road transport unions meeting in London today welcomed the peaceful return to work of Kenyan drivers and reinforced the call for union rights at Kuwait-based company Agility logistics.
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ITF warns of crisis as Kenyan police make ready to attack drivers
The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) is warning of an imminent crisis as massed, armed Kenyan riot police make ready to attack truck drivers peacefully gathered near the towns of Kanaan and Mai Mahiu.
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ITF investigates DP-DHL India allegations
An ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) official returns from India today after a fact-finding visit to investigate allegations made by Indian unions and workers – as well as in a report to be released today and a recent German TV programme – of serious injustices in the operations of logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL there.
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Union action protects right to strike
Worldwide action organised by the ITF and Public Services International (PSI), in concert with other global unions, the ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation) and trade unions worldwide, has helped thwart an attempt to remove the right to strike at the International Labour Organization (ILO).
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Right to strike upheld – but needs defending
Following a worldwide trade union campaign to defend it, the right to strike has been re-affirmed at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva.
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‘Hands off our right to strike’ demand unions in global campaign
Global union federations and their affiliated unions around the world today mounted an intensive campaign to defend the unalienable right to strike, which is under attack from employer groups at the ILO (International Labour Organization).
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Employer groups around the world try to undermine the right to strike. Join the global action on February 18 to stop them.
While inequality is rising, employers’ groups around the world are trying to undermine the right to strike at national and international level.
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