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On the 16-17 October 2019, representatives from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) attended a hearing at the Canadian Industrial Labor Relations Board (CIRB) regarding the right to strike at the Port of Montreal, Canada. The case that was brought forth by the Maritime Employers

Statement from ITF general secretary Stephen Cotton on the upcoming Canadian election.

Despite impunity from shipowners and a lack of cooperation from Iranian and Syrian flag states, the ITF and our affiliates have secured the repatriation home of seafarers in two separate cases of abandonment in the Arab World and Iran.

The ITF has established its latest Contacts Network, covering Bangladesh, Cambodia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Thailand. In recent years, the ITF has seen a significant increase in seafarers requesting assistance from countries without an inspector or

Recently, the ITF highlighted the news of a historic agreement for food delivery workers, and now the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) are building the pressure in France on food delivery company Deliveroo. This led to Deliveroo rider Jérémy Wick cycling 600 miles (960 km) to the company’s

The International Transport Workers’ Federation today join Ukrainian and Croatian maritime unions in demanding that the search for seven seafarers continue in the mid-Atlantic following the sinking of the Bourbon Rhode.

Weeks before Lufthansa is expected to sell its catering subsidiary, LSG Sky Chefs, the company continues to ignore its 11,000 workers in the United States.

Around 8,000 maritime workers in Nigeria will benefit from a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) signed by two unions. The Nigerian Merchant Officers and Water Transport Staff Association and the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria signed the CBA with the Nigerian Maritime Administration and

The ITF civil aviation section has hailed the participation of experts from ITF unions at the 40th assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) as a great success. Twenty-five union experts, including young workers and women, from 14 countries participated in the proceedings of