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Global Week of Action for Safe and Sustainable Rail
This week marks International Railway Workers’ Day and the start of our Global Action Week for safe and sustainable rail. This week of action - now an annual...
Statement on Uber and the future of the gig economy
Statement from ITF General Secretary Stephen Cotton: “Uber’s announcement on Tuesday that it would classify British drivers as ‘workers’ is a watershed...
Breakthrough for aviation workers in India
The Aviation Industry Employees Guild (AIEG), a union for all aviation workers in India, has started welcoming outsourced ground staff as members, after years of...
South African aviation workers take action at Airlink
Hundreds of workers have taken action against a culture of attacking the rights of working people at Airlink. The aviation company is guilty of rampant unfair...
Win for aviation workers in Paraguay
Working people at LATAM Airlines in Paraguay are celebrating after overturning years of poor behaviour by the company. Five years ago, LATAM cut the working...
Bus workers win back #OurPublicTransport for the people – #UnionWin
Things are getting back to normal at the Cinder Bed Road depot, one month after the longest strike in the history of the bus service in Washington, DC, USA, which...
Breaking news: working people form new rail and metro union in Bangkok
Bangkok has seen a historic moment today as a new workers’ union has been launched. Working people on the city’s metro and rail system have come together to...
Pakistani rail union to protest in multiple cities
ITF-affiliate, the Railway Workers Union of Pakistan (RWU Open Line), is to hold simultaneous protests in eight cities to force the railway administration to...
ITF backs unions against ‘slavery law’ in Ukraine
The ITF has joined with global unions and its Ukrainian affiliates to oppose a draft labour law that will severely undermine workers’ rights and contravene...
ITF rescues Kenyan seafarers from Mozambique
The ITF has come to the rescue of 10 Kenyan seafarers who had travelled to Pemba, Mozambique through Tanzania in August 2019, to work on an EU-bound vessel, MV...