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The ITF has paid tribute to Tabudi Abner Ramakgolo, a founding member of South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) and former ITF regional chair for Africa, who has died. Brother Tabudi worked tirelessly as an activist organiser, bringing together workers in transport, cleaning and

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have committed to work closer together to support seafarers calling in all Saudi Arabia ports. On 21 October 2019, the IMO Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mr Essam M. Alammari, met with

ITF affiliate, the ATU (Amalgamated Transit Union) in the USA, is one of unions representing public transport workers at Transdev. Bus operators employed at WMATA’s (Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority) Cinder Bed Road bus depot, the first bus depot privatised in Washington DC’s Metro

On October 15, the ITF Road Transport Section Committee, representing over 2.5 million road transport workers around the world, met in Montreal, Canada, to coordinate actions to combat the negative effects of privatisation, deregulation and liberalisation in the sector. All over the world, transport

The ITF women’s department has joined with affiliates in Bogotá and Buenos Aires to plan the expansion of the ITF Women’s Advocate Programme to Colombia and Argentina It is part of an ongoing project funded by Union To Union - the Swedish trade union movement’s organisation for international

The International Transport Workers’ Federation has further condemned the violence and use of excessive force in Chile that have led to the deaths of at least 20 people, and demanded that Chilean President Sebastián Piñera listen to the people or resign and call an election.

Union leaders from countries across the Caribbean have come together to develop a strategy for building transport workers’ power in the region. Over 20 activists from nine countries met in Antigua. They agreed to focus on building power through working to organise transport workers in tourism

Over forty railway union activists from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan have come together to share strategies on organising in restructured railway companies. The three-day workshop in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan included twenty women workers and was backed by Union To Union (U2U) - the Swedish trade union

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has hosted the screening of a new film at ITF House exposing how global aid budgets are used to reinforce spiralling inequality in the world, and how people can challenge this. The event, organised by the IFJ's UK affiliate the National Union of

The ITF has called for the immediate end to the state of emergency in Chile, the opening of a genuine dialogue with the unions and civil society groups, and sent international solidarity to the Chilean people in their struggle against the repressive actions of the government. ITF general secretary