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Shipping giant Maersk has agreed that it will ensure that any vessel it charters has an ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) or similar agreement – which puts in place protections for crews on flag of convenience ships – covering it. The company already has collective bargaining agreements covering its directly-owned fleet.

Twenty-four XPO workers and union representatives from Europe and the United States have developed a joint strategic approach to protect standards for workers and ensure respect for labour rights, in the face of the company’s aggressive merger and acquisitions plans.

Trade unions who are part of the ITF Maersk network will meet in Copenhagen, Denmark this week to discuss the next steps in supporting transport workers employed by the maritime conglomerate.

The ITF’s Latin America leaders are supporting trade union efforts in Venezuela to build their strength to better support and represent their members in the country’s transport industry.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is welcoming revelations of tax avoidance and related activities in the leaked Panama Papers this week in the hope that the exposure will lead to a change in the current climate of tacit approval for this kind of socially damaging behaviour.

An ITF union in Panama has signed an agreement with global logistics giant DHL that includes big improvements for workers at the company.

The maritime coordinator of the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation), Jacqueline Smith, today described the senate hearings into flag of convenience (FOC) shipping taking place in Canberra, Australia, as raising “shocking concerns”.

Argentinean cabin crew union the Asociación Argentina de Aeronavegantes (AAA) and the ITF held a regional seminar on 22 March to discuss union responses to the threats posed to aviation workers and their industry in Latin America by increasing liberalisation and deregulation.

A cross-border campaign by ITF member union the FNV against the exploitation of drivers and social dumping in transport linked to the potato industry has won safe rates in two trucking companies and is now focusing on a third.

The ITF is building its support for rail unions in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), to help make them even stronger for tackling the challenges of globalisation, general secretary Steve Cotton told trade unions during a visit to Moscow.