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A forty-strong international delegation took its protest over a lack of labour rights direct to the Swiss heartland today, when it put a global company headquartered there on notice that it has to listen to its workers.

Delegates gathered in London this month for the first seminar on ITF Mexico City policy implementation. Twenty-six union leaders and staff from ITF seafarers’ unions in Ukraine, Germany, Russia, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Norway, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Israel, Turkey, Portugal and the

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is sad to announce that the father of Victor Crespo – the Honduran trade union leader threatened with death for his work in Puerto Cortés – has died following an attack on him and other family members by an armed assailant who ran them down in a

Commenting on Johanna Karlsson’s expose on Qatar Airways, Gabriel Mocho, ITF aviation secretary said:

ITF leaders witnessed a historic moment this week as representatives of Cuban trade unions told the ITF executive board that they wanted to work with the Federation, which they called a “great organisation”. “The aims of the ITF and of its sections as well as your overall direction has a lot in

The German National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines (NCP) today issued a Joint Statement (click here) agreed upon by UNI, the ITF and Deutsche Post-DHL. The Joint Statement addresses some key areas in dispute and aims to turns a page in UNI and the ITF’s relationship with this leading

The ITF-affiliated Swaziland Transport and Allied Workers Union (STAWU) has saved over half the jobs at risk of redundancy at Swaziland Airlink.

This year's theme for the International Maritime Organization (IMO) World Maritime Day, 26 September, was sustainable development.

Global unions the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and IUF (International Union of Food, Agricultural and Hospitality Workers) today welcomed the release of research by Finnish group Finnwatch into the human cost of that nation’s cheap supermarket food.

Last week the ITF initiated arrest procedures against the vessel Isis at Tilbury on behalf of its crew.As a result of the legal action the operators, Derna Carriers, have placed USD132,000 with the UK agent to make good the crew’s claim to the end of December. This left repatriation costs and