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The ITF is calling on its affiliates to support workers at Air Niugini, who are locked in a dispute with the airline’s management over a range of issues including housing allowance for employees. ITF’s Papua New Guinean affiliate, the National Airline Employees Association (NAEA), represents workers

ITF-affiliate, the Railway Workers Union of Pakistan (RWU Open Line), is to hold simultaneous protests in eight cities to force the railway administration to resolve a long-running dispute. The union has been pushing for approval of its charter of demands for its collective agreement, but the

The ITF has joined with global unions and its Ukrainian affiliates to oppose a draft labour law that will severely undermine workers’ rights and contravene national labour law and international labour standards. Today, ITF general secretary Stephen Cotton has written to the president of Ukraine

The ITF has come to the rescue of 10 Kenyan seafarers who had travelled to Pemba, Mozambique through Tanzania in August 2019, to work on an EU-bound vessel, MV Nina. The seafarers were left stranded on the vessel, which had technical problems, for four months without contracts or adequate food

Dockers unions, shop stewards and legal advisors from ten countries gathered in Rotterdam yesterday and pledged to take action to ensure that the new “Dockers’ Clause” is correctly implemented, forming an international team of legal advisors to prepare for action against companies that do not comply

The Council of Global Unions (CGU) – representing more than 200 million workers from across the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and Global Union Federations including the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD – wholeheartedly condemns the response of the Indian government to the

The ITF has represented the views of global maritime professionals at the 20th general assembly of the International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU) in Tokyo, Japan, 30 October to 2 November 2019. The event was attended by 180 specialists of maritime universities and industry experts

On 1 October 2019, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and a global alliance of national trade unions served formal notice on XPO Logistics Europe under the French Corporate Duty of Vigilance Law . The law holds businesses to

It’s a new decade in an ever-changing world, but one thing remains constant: dockers have never shied away from a fight — and faced with the fight to reclaim lashing jurisdiction, ITF affiliated dockers’ unions are launching into 2020 by fighting from the front.