Representatives of unions, companies and international organisations from 25 countries have met to discuss the challenges of responding to digitalisation and automation in global supply chains.

The ITF has told a major International Labour Organization conference in Argentina that child and forced labour were key trade union issues, and that ITF unions would continue to push for change from the bottom up.

The ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation) has backed what it describes as “a historic breakthrough” on eliminating Qatar’s kafala system, which has allowed the exploitation of migrant workers in the Gulf state.

The ITF and the ITUC have strongly criticised employers at a UN conference for trying to block progress towards a treaty to bring the international operations of multinational companies under the rule of law.

The ITF and UNI global union have extended their groundbreaking protocol with DHL, which sees all parties meet regularly to resolve industrial relations issues.

DP-DHL (Deutsche Post DHL Group), the ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation) and UNI Global Union have jointly asked the German National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises to extend a protocol to continue regular dialogue on industrial relations topics.

DP-DHL (Deutsche Post DHL Group), the ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation) and UNI Global Union have jointly asked the German National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises to extend a protocol to continue regular dialogue on industrial relations topics. The protocol was first signed in July 2016 by the German NCP.

The ITF has been involved in an investigation by the BBC into European truck drivers who are being pressured into tampering with the equipment that records their driving time.

Trade union investment experts meeting in Berlin have shone a spotlight on the labour practices of US-based logistics provider XPO

Trade union investors meeting in Berlin today served notice on US-based logistics provider XPO that it must reform its labour practices.

Türkiye’de bulunan ITF (Uluslararası Taşımacılık İşçileri Federasyonu) heyeti, bugün yaptığı bir açıklamayla, hükümetin sendikacılara yönelik yeni bir baskı dalgası başlatmanın hazırlığı içinde olabileceği uyarısında bulundu. Bu uyarı, heyetin haksız yere hapsedilmiş olan sendikacı meslektaşlarını ziyaret etmelerine izin verilmemesi ve sendika üyelerine karşı polis şiddetinin sürüyor olmasıyla bağlantılı olarak yapıldı.

An ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) mission to Turkey today warned that the government there may be preparing a further wave of repression against trade unionists. The warning comes as the delegation was prevented from visiting unjustly imprisoned union colleagues, and amid continuing police violence against union members.