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Building a strategy to empower Brazilian workers was the question being addressed in a high level leadership meeting in Rio yesterday. As an outcome, the leaders attending who represent workers across all forms of transport in the country committed to work jointly to grow the number of organised

An active member of the Jakarta International Container Terminal Trade Union (SPJICT) was yesterday viciously assaulted by Hutchison Port Security in Jakarta.

Dockers’ unions in Peru have committed to unite under the ITF flag to fight for fair wages and decent conditions for dockers worldwide.

The ITF has joined Irish dock workers union SIPTU in an urgent call for better protection for all workers in Ireland’s ports — through both regulations and enforcement — after a 50-year-old truck driver was killed in North Docks at Dublin Port on August 14.

An ITF delegation has been in South Korea as rail unions in the region plan to work closely across a key transport corridor. The ITF railway section chair, David Gobe, and ITF inland transport section assistant secretary, Janina Malinovska, joined a delegation from the Rosprofzhel Russian railway

Following the incidents in the Gulf of Oman, and specifically the Strait of Hormuz, over the past 12 weeks, the International Bargaining Forum (IBF) this morning designated the Straits as a Temporary Extended Risk Zone. This means that seafarers who are subject to an attack in the zone, are entitled

Today we celebrate the power of young workers around the world. Young people are at the forefront of every movement that is transforming work, politics, the economy, society and unionism itself. We are in a period of great struggle, and young people are the only ones that can lead us into a better

The Railway Workers Union (open line) (RWU) of Pakistan has joined the ITF. Despite political turmoil in the country, the RWU has campaigned hard to keep Pakistan’s railways in public ownership, grown its membership and successfully applied to join the ITF. The RWU has developed to organise and

The Liberian-flagged bulk carrier the MV Lita was detained by for nine days after Belgian authorities inspected the ship and found dozens of safety breaches and deficiencies relating to the working conditions of the crew.