New guidelines to avoid or manage an outbreak of coronavirus on board ships are now available. They include pre-boarding screenings, isolation cabins, outbreak management plans, contact tracing, quarantine, daily cleaning and disinfection. The World Health Organization (WHO) Operational
Hundreds of workers have taken action against a culture of attacking the rights of working people at Airlink. The aviation company is guilty of rampant unfair dismissals, is refusing to amend the current collective agreement and wants to exclude ground and ramp staff from the agreement, according to
A high-level transport symposium in Johannesburg, South Africa has brought together the leaders of eight major unions to discuss how to appeal to the 76 percent of transport workers in the country that are unorganised. Also participating at the event were the general secretaries of the International
Working people at LATAM Airlines in Paraguay are celebrating after overturning years of poor behaviour by the company. Five years ago, LATAM cut the working conditions of cabin crew, mechanics, dispatchers and pilots. However, these cuts have now been overturned by the courts. Two unions brought the
Things are getting back to normal at the Cinder Bed Road depot, one month after the longest strike in the history of the bus service in Washington, DC, USA, which led to an extraordinary victory for working people. The bus operators walked out from the only privatised depot in the city on 24 October
UPDATE Wednesday, 1 April 2020, a message from the organisers: Many thanks for having sent in a nomination for the Esther Busser Memorial Prize. Unfortunately, the current Covid-19 pandemic is forcing us to change plans and revise the foreseen schedule. Because of the impossibility to convene our
Seventy crew on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship off the coast of Japan have been infected with the Covid-19 virus, the International Transport Workers’ Federation report. All remaining crew, predominately Filipino and Indonesian, are to begin the process to be repatriated home in the coming
Several transport unions in Cambodia have united to plan activities collectively and build power for working people in the country. Workers from the Cambodian Transport Workers' Federation (CTWF), Informal Democratic Employees Association (IDEA) and Sihanoukville Port Workers' Union met at Phnom
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) today call upon ship operators to return lashing to shore based dock workers. On February 11, the Dutch registered container vessel OOCL Rauma spilled seven containers overboard during a stormy