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21 OCTOBER 2022 – This week at the Rail & Maritime Transport Union’s (RMTU) congress in New Zealand, delegates voted in favour of a resolution to have youth representation on the executive committee of all branch levels across the country by 2023. The measure passed with unanimous support from the

Unions are stepping up the pressure on development agencies to ensure workers’ rights, especially those of women, are at the core of their work across the world. The newly launched, The labour and gender related safeguard frameworks of International Financial Institutions , by the International

International and European trade unions welcome a new global agreement for net-zero carbon aviation emissions by 2050, but call for stronger commitments at country level, including on social criteria. No worker or region should be left behind, we need a Just Transition for all! After weeks of

Responding to the overdue publication by the government this evening of the review of the Atypical Work Permit Scheme for Non-EEA fishers the International Transport Workers’ Federation’s (ITF) Fisheries Campaign Lead for Ireland, Michael O’Brien said: “The ITF will study the report in detail and

After more than 100 days of horrendous, devastating flooding in Pakistan, it is clear that climate change is not some distant, far-off hypothetical: it is already a crisis for us all right now. The tragedy underlines the desperate need for a just transition now, and concrete action at the next

Newspapers described it as the biggest strike in decades. On Saturday October 1, more than 50,000 workers on the UK’s rails were on strike. Members from the RMT, ASLEF, TSSA, and Unite the Union shut down almost the entire rail service in the country. The strikes, with more days of action planned