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The ITF's latest special podcast about the Covid-19 pandemic has heard about the key role being played by public transport workers. In the show, Mohamed Mezghani, secretary general of the UITP (the international organisation for public transport authorities and operators), says: "Public transport

Three Greek seafarers and 22 of their shipmates on two bulk carriers at anchor in the Port of Djibouti are among a rising tide of crew abandoned around the world at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. The ship’s engineers remain stranded on the Liberian flagged MV Ptolemeos and MV Arrybas on the

Statement from ITF president Paddy Crumlin and ITF general secretary Stephen Cotton on behalf of ITF affiliates worldwide, and our 20 million members in the essential supply chain industries of shipping, stevedoring, rail, road, aviation, urban transport, fisheries and tourism.

Indonesian authorities first rejected multiple requests for an emergency medical evacuation needed to save the life of a 45-year-old Russian seafarer on board the WL Palekh due to the country’s Covid-19 restrictions.

(Geneva/ London) – The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) called for support from governments to the aviation industry, to protect jobs and ensure that air services can be maintained. The economic situation facing the aviation

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) together offer our deepest sympathies to the families, friends and colleagues of those air transport workers that have lost their lives and to all affected by the virus and the measures taken

Guidance for trade union negotiators Safe access to decent sanitation facilities at work, and most importantly being able to use them when needed during the working day, is truly a global issue that is widely and deeply felt by all transport workers, particularly women transport workers. This is

The latest, special ITF podcast looking at the Covid-19 crisis has heard about the particular effects on working women. ITF project specialist (ending violence against women transport workers) Kim Rojas talks to Lisa Kelly and Eva Guta. Lisa Kelly is the national director of the women's department