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Statement from ITF General Secretary Stephen Cotton

More than 50 seafarers remain trapped aboard vessels once owned by a Turkish billionaire whose jail and bankruptcy have left his employees without food, fuel and freedom for 10 months. But Turkey can save them.

It is with great shock that the ITF reports the death of Doris Sin, Assistant Head of the ITF (FOC) Hong Kong Campaign Office. Our thoughts are with Doris’ family in this difficult time. Doris was a key member of the ITF team in Hong Kong for over seven years. As Assistant to the Head of the ITF

FedEx-TNT workers have been left reeling in shock after the multi-billion dollar company announced in January plans to fire 6,000 of its European workforce who have driven FedEx’s profits to record levels. Livia Spera, General Secretary of the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) said today

'It’s expensive, but it’s the right thing to do’ – that’s the message from the global union body for seafarers as the ITF calls on shipping companies to pay the millions of dollars required to get seafarers off ships which remain stranded off the Chinese coast due to the country’s informal

Since the ITF brought you the story of the crew of the MV Onda, it seems Mohamed Amin has plunged to new depths in his exploitation of the seafarers. The ITF has obtained evidence that the MV Onda crew were pushed to sign wage receipt declarations onboard the vessel in a language they could not read

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) condemns in the strongest possible terms the attempted military takeover of Myanmar’s fragile democracy currently taking place. The voice of the world’s transport workers also confirms its unbroken commitment and support for Burmese affiliate

The ITF is this week mourning the passing of former official Brian Laughton. Brian joined the ITF as a clerk in 1959. From visiting his first ships in the 1960s, he was appalled at the conditions endured by workers onboard ships operating as part of the Flag of Convenience system. In 1971 Brian was

Joint statement from the IUF and the ITF on the adoption of the 2021 Declaration for Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture by the FAO’s Committee on Fisheries (COFI) Global union federations the IUF [i] and the ITF [ii] welcome the adoption of the Declaration for Sustainable Fisheries and

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is outraged and dismayed at the murder of Leonardo Escala, the president of the union for dock workers at ICTSI’s Manila terminal, Nagkakaisang Manggagawa sa Pantalan Incorporated (NMPI)-ICTSI. Leonardo Escala and his his four-year-old niece were