Fair pay for road transport workers leads to fewer crashes, improves road safety, and is essential in making the industry more sustainable. Various studies have found that 1 percent higher pay can reduce truck driver crashes from between 1 to 3 percent.
Research shows that drivers voluntarily reduce
Many unions are already working to protect drivers from downward pressure on pay and conditions and the unsafe effects of dangerously competitive business models. For example, your union may have negotiated clauses in collective bargaining agreements. You may be using bargaining strategies that
In 2023, the ITF and its affiliates launched a Global Safe Rates Campaign. Over 70 unions in 48 countries are now participating in the campaign. Regulatory systems that adhere to Safe Rates principles have been implemented or significantly
The road transport industry is in crisis. Extreme competition, informality, and business models based on excessive subcontracting, cost cutting and illegal practices are pushing workers to the brink. Drivers are forced to work extremely long hours, drive while fatigued, speed
The ITF and its affiliates worldwide played an important role in securing the ILO Convention on Violence and Harassment in 2019, along with the ITUC, other global trade unions and civil society organisations - after two years of negotiations at the ILO and years of campaigning .
Thousands of women
