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news 03 Jun 2025

Seafarers’ unions and maritime employers agree pay boost under world’s largest Collective Bargaining Agreement

Seafarers around the world will receive a two-year, 5% pay rise after negotiations at the International Bargaining Forum (IBF) in Singapore last month. The pay award will be implemented through a 3.5% pay rise with effect from 1 January 2026, and a further 1.5% pay rise with effect from 1 January

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Page 02 Jun 2025

Raising Awareness

The ITF has been leading global efforts to build awareness on gender-based violence and harassment and its impacts on the transport sector.

C190 is for everyone, but as we know women are disproportionally impacted by gender based violence and harassment, ITF is utilising C190 as a critical

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news 02 Jun 2025

ITF leads push for an ILO Convention on platform work as International Labour Conference opens

Geneva – The 113th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) opens today in Geneva, bringing together governments, employers and workers’ delegates from all 187 ILO Member States to negotiate new international labour standards on decent work in the platform economy and protection against

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Publication 30 May 2025

Bibliography of sources supporting Safe Rates

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Publication 30 May 2025

Safe Rates Negotiating and Lobbying Documents

Economic pressure (subcontracting, unrealistic targets, precarity, low pay and performance-based/piece rate pay systems, cost-cutting) has a direct impact on workers’ safety and health. Research on supply chains and complex contracting relationships links these pressures to safety and health risks

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Publication 30 May 2025

Safe Rates Legal Systems

Contains legal systems and calculations.

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news 29 May 2025

ITF condemns Panama’s crackdown on union rights, demands immediate release of SUNTRACS leaders

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) condemns the Panamanian Government’s escalating repression of trade union rights. The wave of intimidation targeting SUNTRACS and other unions strikes at the heart of freedom of association, collective bargaining and the rule of law. In recent

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Page 29 May 2025

Mapping our wins

Use this map to find out where ITF unions are fighting for and winning Safe Rates regulatory systems.

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news 28 May 2025

US Authorities Right to Examine Flags of Convenience System — But Action Must Follow

US investigation into Flags of Convenience must be backed by IMO-led action and industry-wide accountability. The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is backing the US Federal Maritime Commission’s (FMC) domestic investigation into vessel flagging laws, including the long-abused

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news 28 May 2025

ITF: Seafarer abandonment in 2025 poised to shatter 2024 record

New figures released by the ITF reveal that vessel abandonments have surged nearly 33% year on year. By May this year, 158 cases of vessel abandonment had been recorded, up from 119 at the same point in 2024.

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Seafarers’ unions and maritime employers agree pay boost under world’s largest Collective Bargaining Agreement

Raising Awareness

ITF leads push for an ILO Convention on platform work as International Labour Conference opens

Bibliography of sources supporting Safe Rates

Safe Rates Negotiating and Lobbying Documents

Safe Rates Legal Systems

ITF condemns Panama’s crackdown on union rights, demands immediate release of SUNTRACS leaders

Mapping our wins

US Authorities Right to Examine Flags of Convenience System — But Action Must Follow

ITF: Seafarer abandonment in 2025 poised to shatter 2024 record

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