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European dockers’ unions have pledged their support for workers in the Port of Rotterdam, Netherlands, who face an ongoing dispute with management over negotiation of a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA).During a meeting in Antwerp last week, unions affiliated to the European arm of the ITF

The ITF has acted to assure the safety of a Honduran trade union leader following an attack at his home and a series of threats on his life.

Global union the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) is launching a guide on how to combat violence against women as part of its support for the UN Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Monday, 25 November.The 50 page ITF action guide on violence against women is

ETF- and ITF-affiliated transport unions from across Denmark, Sweden and Norway have pledged their support to dockers in Risavika Terminal who are now in the second week of their boycott. Members of the Norwegian Transport Workers’ Union (NTF) began action in Risavika, near Stavanger, on 1 November

The ITF-affiliated Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Industria de la Aviación Civil y Similares (SIELAS) in Panama succeeded in signing a CBA (collective bargaining agreement) with the air cargo company COPADASA on 14 June, after two months of negotiations and a strike declaration by the

The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) stands in solidarity with our South African affiliates and all other South African unions and democratic organisations to remember the passing of Comrade Nelson Mandela, the visionary leader of the South African liberation struggle. We mourn the

The ITF road transport section steering committee meeting in Belgium last week condemned the murder of Antonio “Dodong” Petalcorin and announced actions to end the violence against trade unionists in the Philippines.

The ITF is supporting workers at the Grangemouth refinery in Scotland whose operator today announced it is to close the petrochemical facility at the site, with the probable loss of over 700 jobs. Eleven hundred members of ITF-affiliated Unite the Union are under attack from the facility’s

Support for locked out port workers in the Pacific Northwest of America continues to grow, the latest display being a visit from a Japanese union leader to the picket lines in Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.

Transport sector workers in Tunisia have called a one-day strike on 12 December 2013 in response to the continuing erosion of workers’ rights. ITF affiliates Fédération Nationale des Transports (FNT) and Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail (UGTT) have jointly called on Tunisia’s supervisory