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Unions from across Latin America have come together and committed to provide assistance and solidarity to seafarers in distress in Central and South American ports.

Global ride-hailing company Uber is one of the world leaders for attacking workers’ rights. It cuts corners on employment standards and is under legal challenge in multiple jurisdictions. We are seeing poverty wages, debt servitude, mental health issues, and health and safety due to long hours. We

Cabin crew represented by Fórsa have secured recognition negotiations with Stobart Air under threat of industrial action.

After months of campaigning, bus and tram drivers at the Sofia Electric Transport and Sofia Bus Transport companies have won their biggest ever pay rise, ranging between 25 and 28 percent, to align wages in the two companies. The workers carried out negotiations through their unions, the Federation

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has launched a targeted operation against German shipping company Johann M. K. Blumenthal over the company’s continued refusal to recognise seafarers’ welfare and rights.

Rail unions from 14 CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries have come together to share experiences and find ways to work together on railway corridors. Participants at the International Trade Union Confederation of Railway Workers met in Tbilisi, Georgia to talk about how to respond to

The ITF is joining a call by Korean workers for their government to ratify core International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions and guarantee fundamental labour rights for all workers. On 13 April, thousands of Koreans, including truck drivers and specially-employed workers, will protest in

During a recent mission to Croatia, ITF general secretary Stephen Cotton met with the Croatian Ship Manning Association (CROSMA) and the Mare Nostrum Shipowner Association, together with ITF’s affiliate Seafarers Union of Croatia (SUC), to discuss how to safeguard working conditions for the country’s seafarers.

Four seafarers have been kidnapped from a Liberian-flagged container vessel whilst at anchor in the Port of Douala off the coast of Cameroon.