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At the 7th annual UN forum for business and human rights in Geneva, Switzerland, 26–28 November, the ITF has demanded good practice from businesses to respect the labour rights of all their employees, including workers throughout their supply chains and others affected by their business relationships.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation has warned that a major accident on the Panama Canal could be imminent, as the results of an independent report released today into work practices highlights serious health and safety concerns related to the fatigue of tugboat captains.

Young transport workers from ITF unions in Latin America and the Caribbean have come together at a regional workshop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 27 to 29 November.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation welcomed the long-awaited announcement that the Thailand National Assembly today voted to approve the ratification of the International Labor Organization convention which protects fishers’ rights.

Dockers in the Portuguese port of Setubal are bravely fighting a legitimate struggle to end the use of precarious work in the port.

The general secretary of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has written to Argentine ministers demanding immediate action to resolve a dispute at the Aerolíneas Argentinas Group.

ITF unions across the world have used World Toilet Day to call for action to ensure safe and equal access to toilets for all transport workers.

The Netherlands supreme court has broken a ruling by the court of appeal that had previously ruled that Dutch wages were not applicable to Hungarian truck drivers working in and from the Netherlands.

The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is calling on the New Zealand bus company Go Bus to unconditionally end its lockout of bus drivers for exercising their right to take action to demand a living wage. The drivers had voted to stop taking fare money from passengers to show that they cannot continue to live on such low wages.