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International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) unions are taking action today to demand that IKEA takes responsibility for exploitation in its European road transport supply chain.

Trade unions from the FBTTT (Federación Bolivariana de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras del sector Transporte, Afines y Conexos) in Venezuela participated in an organising and strengthening seminar last week.

‘A vibrant, dynamic event laying out a clear work programme to congress 2018.’

ITF general secretary Steve Cotton has expressed his sadness at the death at the age of 81 of lifelong trade unionist and former Canadian Labour Congress president Bob White. Writing to the members of Bob White’s former union, Unifor, Steve Cotton said: Like you, we in the ITF mourn the loss of Bob

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) today condemned an offer by a small coalition of Ukrainian trade unions to slash minimum wages for the country’s seafarers.

Burkina Faso road workers ended a planned three-day strike early after winning promises of government action on road security and the extension of their collective bargaining agreement (CBA).

The impact of the Arab Spring on trade union rights, and global support for the freedom of workers in Palestine are high on the agenda of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) Arab World regional conference.

The next stage of the ITF’s Pathway to congress is just a few days away as unionists from across the Arab World prepare to come together for their regional conference.

Just two days after the ITF warned that the Irish government’s system of permits for migrant fishers was ‘legitimising slavery’, the former jobs minister has admitted hearing ‘alarming allegations’ of abuse and called on the government to scrap and replace the system.

The ITF and its member unions ver.di, the SUR (Seafarers’ Union of Russia) and MTWTU (Marine Transport Workers' Trade Union of Ukraine) are calling for a fast but reasoned response to the kidnapping of eight crew members of the BBC Caribbean in the Gulf of Guinea. The seafarers – seven Russians and a Ukrainian – were taken off the cargo ship by pirates and are believed to be being held hostage in Nigeria.