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Media advisory: Davos interview opportunity – global union leader
The ITF represents formal and informal workers in road, rail, shipping, ports, tourism, inland navigation, fisheries, aviation, airports, tourism, warehousing and...
ITF: lifting of Thailand’s yellow card on fishing disturbing
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is surprised to see the Commission's lifting of the yellow card because while illegal fishing has gotten...
ITF unions join Indian strike
Farmers and students are also supporting the strike, meaning it is likely to be the biggest shutdown, in terms of number of people, in human history. Port and...
Freedom and wages returned after seven years of hell
Mohammed and his three crewmates had been effectively in captivity, abandoned for five years, on a tugboat in Mumbai harbour. Without power or fuel, the Ghanaian...
Released cabinet papers show major waterfront dispute a government set up
The major dispute broke out in 1998 when the stevedoring company, Patrick, locked out its entire union workforce and bussed in balaclava-wearing strike-breakers...
Stephen Cotton's new year message 2019
“2018 has been a really tough year. Our president, Paddy Crumlin, has also issued a message about the political situation, the challenges from North America all...
Australian seafarers to gain from Canadians’ seafarers local shipping win
From December 9-11 in Ottawa, Canada, the Seafarers International Union of Canada (SIU Canada) hosted an Australian delegation of Labor Senator Glenn Sterle and...
ITF statement on XPO in the USA and Spain
In October 2018, the New York Times published the exposé 'Miscarrying at Work: The Physical Toll of Pregnancy Discrimination', which provides detailed accounts of...