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Bloodshed on roads can end now: global action week pushes for Safe Rates
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), representing millions of road transport workers worldwide, has launched a Global Safe Rates Action Week, running from August 26 to September 1
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Outraged at rising deaths on roads, 10,000 Korean truck drivers rally for new Safe Rates legislation
With working conditions deteriorating and road traffic deaths surging in South Korea, truck drivers’ outrage is leading to mass protest. On Saturday, June 15, over 10,000 truck drivers rallied in
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Indian road transport workers strike against new anti-worker legislation
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) stands in solidarity with Indian road transport workers striking today (February 16) as they demand Modi’s Government reverse legislation that

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ITF Safe Rates Global Statement of Demands – Participating Unions
Around the world road transport workers face severe work pressures due to low-cost tendering practices, unreasonable scheduling, and low rates of pay. These pressures originate in a business model
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Road transport workers’ unions join global fight for Safe Rates
Sixty-three unions representing road transport workers from 39 countries last week committed to joining the struggle for ‘Safe Rates’, coinciding with the launch of the ITF’s Global Safe Rates
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New evidence that South Korean Government behaved illegally in suppressing ‘road safety’ strike
Evidence of striking truck drivers being unreasonably treated as criminals and trumped-up investigations being used against bona fide unions in a recent dispute in South Korean will be added to a
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ILO complaint: it’s time to halt South Korea’s authoritarian approach to striking truckers
Global unions have taken legal action against the South Korean government for its extreme response to a truckers’ strike in the country, which ended on 9 December. The South Korean Government invoked
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International outrage at South Korea’s illegal, heavy-handed attempts to break strike
The South Korean government is flagrantly denying workers their basic rights by issuing ‘return-to-work’ orders to truck drivers striking over safety laws. The crude attempt at strike breaking has