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ITF HIV/AIDS workshops yield real results for workers
“We’re making progress on HIV but the knowledge and need for action doesn't stop.”
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SRI and ITF release education videos on Day of the Seafarer
Seafarers’ Rights International (SRI) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) are marking the Day of the Seafarer by launching a series of short films to help seafarers understand their rights under the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC).
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ITF slams Shipping Australia over dangerous comments on FOC shipping inquiry
The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) is deeply concerned by comments from the body representing flag of convenience shipping interests in Australia.
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Fighting for better seas - the ITF's FOC campaign
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is a global union body representing millions of transport workers worldwide. Maritime workers, their unions and the shipping industry know the ITF for its groundbreaking work to eliminate the exploitation of seafarers and for its flags of
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Colombian court orders Avianca to pay cheated workers
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has ordered national airline Avianca to pay an unprecedented estimated USD2 million – and to pay it this week – to workers whom it cheated of pay and benefits over a decade in a long-term plan to prevent staff joining trade unions.
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ITF welcomes Australian Senate inquiry into FOC shipping and condemns government attacks on cabotage
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has welcomed the Australian Senate’s decision to launch an inquiry into flag of convenience shipping.
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St Lucia hosts union training connecting dockers worldwide
Dockworkers who are members of trade unions affiliated to the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) are in training in St Lucia this week on a new tool to assist them in bargaining, negotiating, campaigning and organising in their ports.
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Colombian court orders Avianca to pay workers cheated by decade of anti-unionism
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has ordered the country’s national airline, Avianca, to pay an unprecedented sum estimated to be around USD2 million to workers whom it cheated of pay and benefits in a long term plan to prevent staff joining trade unions.
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Arab World oil supply chain unions forge alliances for workers’ power
Unions representing workers along the oil supply chain in the Arab World have agreed strategies to work together more closely in order to increase workers’ power in Algeria and Iraq.
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Qatar guilty, says ILO
In a dramatic judgment today, the ILO (International Labour Organization) found Qatar guilty of allowing its state-owned airline, Qatar Airways (QR), to violate international and national agreements and institutionalise discrimination.
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