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The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) representing 18 million transport workers and UITP (International Association of Public Transport) have signed a joint agreement to strengthen women’s employment in public transport. The two parties will now work with unions and employers to

Addressing the transport union and manufacturers summit at the Vatican City, ITF president Paddy Crumlin said that globalisation has failed working people in some key areas internationally, with 60 percent of the world’s workforce in the informal economy, including the majority of transport workers

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) welcomed the roadmap agreed at a tripartite meeting in Geneva last week to address the gap in recruitment and retention of seafarers and the barriers to promote work opportunities for young and women seafarers.

ITF president Paddy Crumlin's address to the Transport Union and Manufacturers Summit at Casina Pio IV, Vatican City.

This week, ITF civil aviation affiliates from around the world met to coordinate their work for the coming years.

An ITF affiliate in Tanzania has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a bodaboda (motorbike taxi) association in Dar es salaam, boosting its membership by around 250. The MoU was signed on 20 February by the Communication and Transport Workers' Union of Tanzania (COTWU-T) and the

Young workers in Austria are celebrating after halting government plans to rollback their labour rights.

Last week, a group of ITF-affiliated trade unions from the Caribbean and beyond met in Miami to discuss building worker power in the region’s tourism sector.

In an unprecedented move, four United Nations (UN) special rapporteurs have signed a joint letter damning the Irish government’s work permit scheme for non-European workers in the fishing industry. The letter comes from the special rapporteurs for the human rights of migrants, on contemporary forms