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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.

An ITF delegation has been in Australia to support a massive demonstration by truck drivers. Trucks converged at points in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide as part of the action by the Transport Workers’ Union. https://twitter.com/TWUAus/status/1112614630537347072 Drivers are

The members of the ITF young workers’ committee are meeting for the first time since their election at the ITF Congress to implement the programme of action agreed in Singapore. Coming together in Split, Croatia, at the invitation of the Seafarers' Union of Croatia, the activists represent young

The world’s global union federations have come together to unequivocally condemn new laws in Brunei that punish homosexual sex with death by stoning. Today, a new penal code is due to be introduced in the Kingdom that targets LGBT+ people with the death penalty. It is the latest phase of brutal new

Today the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) invited Maersk to work constructively with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in addressing the financial and social impacts of the proposed automation at the Port of Los Angeles.