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The Garuda Indonesia airline must end its attack on legitimate trade unions and come to the negotiating table, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has said.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has serious concerns over the lack of understanding shown by many governments in relation to international shipping and the role played by seafarers.

Today, the ITF held its Arab World steering committee meeting in Amman, Jordan. The leaders from across the region came together to discuss the implementation of the three strategic directions that were agreed upon at the ITF Congress in Singapore: growth, innovative campaigning, and influencing

Our affiliated trade union IKAGI is facing further anti-union behaviour from its employer, Garuda Indonesia. Over the past number of months, Garuda has continued to implement anti-union policies against IKAGI, most recently they have removed the ability for workers to pay their union dues through

Building a strategy to empower Brazilian workers was the question being addressed in a high level leadership meeting in Rio yesterday. As an outcome, the leaders attending who represent workers across all forms of transport in the country committed to work jointly to grow the number of organised

An active member of the Jakarta International Container Terminal Trade Union (SPJICT) was yesterday viciously assaulted by Hutchison Port Security in Jakarta.

Dockers’ unions in Peru have committed to unite under the ITF flag to fight for fair wages and decent conditions for dockers worldwide.

The ITF has joined Irish dock workers union SIPTU in an urgent call for better protection for all workers in Ireland’s ports — through both regulations and enforcement — after a 50-year-old truck driver was killed in North Docks at Dublin Port on August 14.

An ITF delegation has been in South Korea as rail unions in the region plan to work closely across a key transport corridor. The ITF railway section chair, David Gobe, and ITF inland transport section assistant secretary, Janina Malinovska, joined a delegation from the Rosprofzhel Russian railway