Road Transport

Ensuring safe and decent work for road transport workers.

Decades of deregulation, subcontracting, and excessive competition have led to a downward spiral in rates of pay, conditions and labour protections for road transport workers, creating economic pressures that make the road transport industry unsafe and unsustainable.


Through organising, contract negotiation, monitoring and enforcement, the ITF is strengthening union capacity to create a safe and sustainable road transport industry.

ISSUES

Road transport workers globally are fighting for decent work that ensures economic employers, governments and transport operators work together to establish a fair price that takes into account the social costs of transport.

Decades of ignoring the sector's decent work shortage – and reliance on pools of exploitable, informal or migrant labour – have meant that trucking companies, and their multinational customers, have not had to invest in their workforces and supply chain. Only 2% of truck drivers are women, and the average age of truck drivers is over 50-years old and rising fast. 

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WHAT WE DO

The ITF Road Transport Section is using a multi-pronged strategy to build union power, address the shortage of decent work in our industry and create safe and sustainable supply chains. 

The three pillars of this strategy are: 

  • Implementing the 2019 Guidelines on the promotion of decent work and road safety in the transport sector, which outline the responsibilities of road transport stakeholders – including employers and customers of road transport services – at the international level.
  • Championing the Road Transport Due Diligence Model (RTDD), which is a worker-centred framework for setting minimum standards, monitoring compliance and remedying adverse impacts on drivers. The model is built through cooperation with companies that are seeking to ensure their supply chain transportation complies with human and labour rights standards.
  • Winning and enforcing Safe Rates, which establishes a regulatory system for setting, implementing, and enforcing fair transport costs and minimum rates of pay for road transport drivers, ensuring the accountability of all road transport stakeholders. 
WHERE WE FOCUS

The ITF is focused on supporting its affiliated unions to protect worker conditions, pay and rights, while bringing them together on a sector-wide basis to challenge power at the top of supply chains.

The members we represent work in passenger and freight transport for both public and private companies. They include workers in all forms of employment including directly, subcontracted, part-time, temporary, dependent / independent contractor, misclassified and informal.

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OUR PEOPLE

We represent road transport workers around the world to ensure safe roads, fair pay and decent conditions. We work along the supply chain to hold those at the top accountable for upholding labour standards and stopping the race to the bottom.

We have built alliances with global policy makers, multinational companies and employers’ association to achieve better regulation and higher standards for road transport workers around the world.

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SECTION SECRETARY

Noel Coard

 

ASSISTANT SECRETARY

Deniz Akdogan

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SECTION COMMITTEE

Flemming Overgaard

3F
,
Denmark
ITF Road Transport section Chair

Anita Rosentreter

First Union
,
New Zealand
Vice Chair (Passenger)

Paulo João Estausia

CNTTL
,
Brazil
Vice Chair (Freight)

Julian Ehret

ver.di
,
Germany
Vice Chair (UTC)

Murad Breik

GUTW
,
Palestine
Young Transport Workers’ Representative

Karina Moyano

FNTCOTAC
,
Argentina
Women Transport Workers' Representative
Africa

Gora Khouma

URS
,
Senegal
Chair

Aliyu Issa Ore

NURTW
,
Nigeria
Vice Chair

Abathun Takele Sahele

TCWUIF
,
Ethiopia
Vice Chair
Arab World

Hamou Touahria

GPTUPT
,
Algeria
Chair

Wajid Zidi

FNT
,
Tunisia
Vice Chair

Walaa Hussein

GTULTW
,
Egypt
Women Transport Workers' Representative

Ahmed Kandil

GTULTW
,
Egypt
Young Transport Workers’ Representative
Asia Pacific

Michael Kaine

TWU
,
Australia
Chair

Ajay Kumar Rai

Netwon
,
Nepal
Vice Chair

Natarajan Krishnamoorthy

GTCEPUF
,
India
Vice Chair

Shoshin Yonaga

Unyo-Roren
,
Japan
Vice Chair

Sheela Naikwade

MSTKS
,
India
Women Transport Workers' Representative

Vacant

Young Transport Workers’ Representative
Europe

Stefan Thyroke

ver.di
Chair

Tom Peeters

BTB-ABVV
,
Belgium
Vice Chair

Elisa Gigliarelli

FILT-CGIL
,
Italy
Vice Chair

Liesbet Verboven

ACV-CSC Transcom
,
Belgium
Women Transport Workers’ Representative

Lyubomir Drenski

FTTUB
,
Bulgaria
Young Transport Workers’ Representative
Latin America

Juan Rafael Aranda

FNTCOTAC
,
Argentina
Chair

José Clodomiro Sandoval Pino

FENASICOCH
,
Chile
Vice Chair

Miguel Alfaro

ASiMM
,
Argentina
Vice Chair

Valdir de Souza Pestana

FTTRESP
,
Brazil
Vice Chair
North America and Caribbean

Len Poirier

UNIFOR
,
Canada
Canada Chair

Brian MacDonald

Teamsters
,
Canada
Canada Vice Chair

Jody Hutton

CUPW
,
Canada
Canada Vice Chair

Shirlet Simons

BIU
,
Bermuda
Caribbean Vice Chair

John A. Costa

ATU
,
United States of America
USA Vice Chair

Christine Scott

TWU
,
United States of America
USA Vice Chair
Sub-section Chairs

Matt Draper

UNITE
,
Great Britain
Chair

Mahendra Tujaram Gharat

NMGKS
,
India
Vice Chair

Oscar Borda

FNTCOTAC
,
Argentina
Vice Chair

Michael Kaine

TWU
,
Australia
Chair of the Economic Employers Sub-Committee
Co-opted members

Edwin Atema

FNV
,
Netherlands
Retail Supply Chain Project

Frank Moreels

BTB-ABVV
,
Belgium
Vice President/ ETF President
OUR AFFILIATES

The ITF Road Transport Section has 268 affiliates from 118 countries representing more than 2 million workers.

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Ordinary members

ACV Puls

Sudermanstraat 5
Antwerpen
2000
Belgium
http://www.acv-puls.be

FILT-CGIL

Via Morgagni 27
Rome
00161
Italy
http://www.filtcgil.it

FNV

PO Box 9208
UTRECHT
3506GE
Netherlands
http://www.fnv.nl

HK/Privat

Weidekampsgade 8
Copenhagen S
2300
Denmark
http://www.hkprivat.dk

UNIA

Zentralseketariat
Bern 16
CH-3000
Switzerland
http://www.unia.ch

Unifor

115 Gordon Baker Road
Toronto
M2H 0A8
Canada

MSG

Tamachi Kotsu Building
Tokyo
108-0023
Japan
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