All content tagged with: "informal workers"
Covid-19: urban transport workers key to response and long-term recovery
As both a health and economic crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic is the largest global challenge of our lifetimes. Over 30 percent of the world’s population is now...
ITF looks at mutual challenges for informal and app-based transport workers
ITF researchers have contributed to an event looking at the key challenges facing informal and gig-economy transport workers. Organised by Rutgers University at...
Union campaign wins full contracts for 400+ Bangladeshi airline workers
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has handed over contractual appointment letters to 438 casual workers at the airline. Some of these workers had been on casual and...
ITF backs Senegalese workers in BRT project
The ITF has hosted an event in Dakar, Senegal, 13-15 May, to help prepare workers and their unions for the city’s planned bus rapid transit (BRT)...
Organising precarious workers
Guide to organising trade union membership and rights among informal and precarious transport workers
ITF takes fight for social, economic and environmental justice to the Vatican
Addressing the transport union and manufacturers summit at the Vatican City, ITF president Paddy Crumlin said that globalisation has failed working people in some...
Tanzania informal transport workers boost union membership
An ITF affiliate in Tanzania has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a bodaboda (motorbike taxi) association in Dar es salaam, boosting its membership...
Unions discuss building power in Caribbean tourism sector
Union leaders from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bermuda, Dominica, Jamaica, St Lucia and the USA met to consider the challenges facing tourism workers and how the...