Burkina Faso road workers ended a planned three-day strike early after winning promises of government action on road security and the extension of their collective bargaining agreement (CBA).

The ITF and its member unions ver.di, the SUR (Seafarers’ Union of Russia) and MTWTU (Marine Transport Workers' Trade Union of Ukraine) are calling for a fast but reasoned response to the kidnapping of eight crew members of the BBC Caribbean in the Gulf of Guinea. The seafarers – seven Russians and a Ukrainian – were taken off the cargo ship by pirates and are believed to be being held hostage in Nigeria.

The ITF is urging its unions to support its newly-launched LabourStart solidarity campaign for thousands of unfairly fired dockworkers in Nigeria.

The first woman train driver in the Arab World and Africa, according to her trade union the UMT, has hit the age of 50 at which all Morocco’s train drivers have to retire.

The ITF (International Transport Workers is giving a warm welcome to the major new Maritime Labour Convention provisions on crew abandonment that come into force tomorrow.

An ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) inspector has issued a last ditch call to a ship owner and its flag state to act to stop the suffering of a 17-strong crew abandoned in Algeria.

Norway’s OSM Aviation and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) recognising the right of employees to organise and laying the basis for genuine representation and collective bargaining rights to raise standards and working conditions, and to ensure professional services in the international aviation sector.

Unions will combat inequality, fear and intolerance

Brussels. 8 December 2016: James Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) will tell representatives of the world’s road and rail workforce gathered in Brussels, Belgium, today that “Trade can’t be free if it’s not fair”.

Unions representing workers at XPO companies worldwide have issued the clearest challenge yet to the company to halt its anti-union policies and cut a fair deal for its workers.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and the UITP (International Association of Public Transport) are joining forces to put public transport at the forefront of tackling climate change.

Global union federation the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) today releases an illustrated booklet recounting the organisation’s fight to support the lawful Republic during the Spanish Civil War, and how the lessons it learnt there allowed it to work with Allied intelligence to fight Nazism in World War Two.