Engage in collective bargaining and support freedom of association.
Establish and/or participate in national, international, regulatory, sectoral, bipartite and multipartite bodies to jointly advocate and agree standards for transport in supply chains, involving trade unions as equal parties.
Recognise the ITF and its affiliates as representatives of transport workers and cooperate to address actual and potential impacts on transport workers’ human and labour rights in their operations and third-party relationships.
Protect and Respect
Recognise and exercise their duty and/or responsibility to fulfil and/or respect human rights, regardless of the ability and/or willingness of other actors to fulfil their obligations.
Implement internationally recognised human rights, other relevant ILO instruments and codes of practice, including those concerning OSH.
Guarantee sanitation rights by cooperating with the ITF to implement the Sanitation Charter in their operations and third-party relationships.
Promote and pursue decent work in their operations and third-party relationships, including by promoting formal employment.
Guarantee that subcontracted workers have access to the equivalent standards of directly employed staff.
Recognise and cooperate with ITF and its affiliates to ensure adequate operational-level grievance mechanisms for all workers.
Ensure, provide for, and/or adequately resource, the information, training and support concerning OSH rights and protections for all workers and third parties in their supply chain.
Monitor
Support and cooperate with the ITF to conduct worker-centred HRDD, including Supply Chain Health Checks for Seafarers’ Human Rights, and Road Transport Due Diligence.
Introduce and/or advocate for mandatory HRDD laws and supply chain accountability legislation, and its effective implementation involving trade unions as key stakeholders.
Conduct independent labour and gender impact assessments in their transport operations and associated services.
Remedy
Support and cooperate with the ITF to remedy actual and potential human and labour rights violations in their transport.
Cease, prevent and mitigate adverse impacts and their root causes, including those that may originate in their own business, management, pricing and tender models.
Work with the ITF and its affiliates to develop, agree, implement and evaluate the effectiveness of remedy plans for transport.
