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ITF and ETF leaders have vowed that the work of trade unions as guarantors and defenders of tolerance and workers’ rights will continue anew after today’s United Kingdom vote to leave the European Union.

Commenting on this morning’s result, ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) president Paddy Crumlin said: “As democrats and trade unionists we respect the decision, hairsbreadth narrow though it was. As democrats and trade unionists we also pledge ourselves to working to preserve the gains made in worker protections in the last decades, and to continue to fight for more.

Say a huge thank you to all those working at sea on 25 June – the International Maritime Organization’s Day of the Seafarer.

Unions have got less than two weeks to protest against Korea’s potentially harsh sentencing of a union president.

Speaking in memory of Jo Cox MP, ITF president and MUA national secretary Paddy Crumlin said:

The author of a hard hitting investigation into the dark side of the seas pledged to continue his work at a briefing held at the ITF’s London headquarters yesterday.

The ITF and its affiliates successfully fought for progress on decent work in global supply chains and other important issues for workers at the International Labour Conference (ILC) from 30 May to 10 June.

The ITF is welcoming the announcement made at the ILO (International Labour Organization) International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva on Friday that could lead to the creation of new international standards to protect those working in global supply chains.

Last month, taxi drivers in Cartagena, Colombia, gathered to discuss the need to organise, increase their labour benefits and stand up to multinational transport apps that bit by bit are trying to invade their sector.

Young transport workers from ITF unions in Asia Pacific have been learning how to build a network of activists and young leaders so they can play a powerful role in campaigning and organising to win a better deal for working people.