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ITF unions representing Gate Gourmet workers are writing today to their local managers, to demonstrate support for the company’s drivers and logistics workers in Argentina as they step up their fight to be correctly recognised, instead of as food workers.

The ITF has called for a major overhaul of the Irish fishing industry to comply with national, European and international legal obligations, saying the government’s permit scheme to address exploitation of migrant fishers had instead ‘legalised slavery’.

Greenpeace and Thai Union have demonstrated that environmentalists and corporations can commit to working together to protect our oceans and the men and women who work on them. Transshipment at sea and unmonitored and unregulated fishing practices have led to the abuse of both our fishing stocks and the workers who bring those fish to our markets.

The ITF has contributed to a major civil society report on sustainable development launched on the first day of the United Nations’ High-Level Political Forum.

The ITF and JNG met in Tokyo on 4 and 5 July 2017 to continue discussions aimed at agreeing a new IBF Framework TCC Agreement following the opening round of discussions held in London in January 2017.

It is with shock and sadness that the ITF reports the death of Hanafi Rustandi, a true giant of trade unionism, while representing seafarers at a pivotal meeting in Japan. ITF president and MUA national secretary Paddy Crumlin and Joe Fleetwood, general secretary of MUNZ, sent the news from the

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) sadly announces the death of Hanafi Rustandi, its Asia Pacific region chair and president of Indonesian seafarers’ union the KPI (Kesatuan Pelaut Indonesia).

A group of more than 20 ITF activists have met in Stockholm for the first time to share ideas and experiences about new ways of working, such as automaton and platform working.

The ITF has used its global reach to coordinate a successful effort to support a crew left stranded in the port of Aden, in conflict-ridden Yemen.