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Public transport workers to set new agenda at International Labour Organization
An ILO technical meeting on the future of decent and sustainable work in urban transport services is taking place this week, with some delegates travelling to...
Give app-based workers fair rights urgently, global unions tell governments
Gig-economy workers are treated abysmally as app-based employers use underhanded definitions and loopholes in the law to duck their responsibilities. The platform...
LGBT+ transport workers need solidarity, not ‘rainbow capitalism’
Attitudes to sexual orientation and gender identity have changed for the better all over the world in the last two decades, towards openness and acceptance. For the...
Food delivery riders to take action globally as major investors shun upcoming Deliveroo IPO
Deliveroo riders are taking coordinated international action to protest the company’s plans to profit from an IPO while denying them basic rights. On 26 March,...
Deliveroo riders call out company for pandemic profiteering ahead of IPO
Riders facing poverty pay and dangerous work form global network to highlight Deliveroo’s exploitative business model to investors. Deliveroo and its early...
ITF Statement on food rider deaths
“The ITF and its affiliates have been shaken by the tragic news of five food delivery riders dying on the roads of Sydney, Australia, in the past few weeks. We...
ITF Executive Board statement to members
The ITF reaffirms the critical role transport workers continue to play in keeping the world moving through the Covid-19 pandemic, and our solidarity with our...
ITF launch gig economy employer principles before landmark Prop 22 vote in California
On the eve of the landmark vote on Proposition 22 in California, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has launched 10 gig economy employer...