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Drifting mines threaten seafarers’ safe passage in Black Sea
International maritime employers and unions are urging governments to significantly increase efforts to ensure safe and secure passage for vessels following reports...

Unions demand change to end fire and rehire
Joint press release from ITF, ETF, Nautilus International & RMT Last night, ITF, ETF, Nautilus International and RMT projected a video on to the cliffs of...

Women in railways: share your views
As part of the ITF Railway Global Action Week, 27 March – 3 April 2022, we are launching an online survey specifically targeted for women railway workers. At...

10,000 transport workers call for immediate reinstatement of illegally sacked P&O seafarers
29 March 2022, London / Brussels Over 10,000 transport workers from almost 200 ITF affiliated unions today expressed their outrage at the mass sacking and...

Silent no more: overworked tugboat workers are reaching breaking point
29 March 2022, London / Brussels Last year, Troy Pearson and Charley Cragg died while towing a barge bound for a Rio Tinto power station in rough seas and strong,...

Argentine airport agreement sets a new model for worker and passenger health
In a first for Latin America, an accord to improve health and safety has been agreed between the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and...

P&O Ferries sackings show a shocking disregard by DP World for workers’ rights and its own standards
DP World sells itself as a progressive business concerned with social and corporate responsibility that supports labour rights and works ‘in a responsible way...

ITF and ETF condemn P&O mass sacking and outsourcing
Global and European maritime unions have expressed anger and condemnation at breaking news that ferry operator P&O Ferries will move to sack its UK based...