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Cabin crew are safety professionals. When a passenger collapses mid-flight. When smoke fills a cabin. When violence erupts onboard. When a security threat emerges at 35,000 feet. There is one group of workers trained to respond: cabin crew. Cabin crew are aviation’s first responders: they are the

A suicide bombing targeting a train in Quetta on 24 May 2026 has killed more than 30 people and left over 100 others wounded in one of the deadliest attacks on Pakistan's railway network in years. The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) condemns this atrocity in the strongest possible

The App Drivers Union (ADU) – backed by two ITF-affiliated unions, the Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ (SEIU) and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM Union) – has won state certification to represent approximately 70,000 rideshare drivers in

The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) welcomes yesterday's ruling by the Paris Appeals Court finding Airbus and Air France guilty of corporate manslaughter over the 2009 crash of Flight AF447. We stand in full solidarity with our French affiliates and the families of the 228 victims

Aviation trade unions in Europe have committed to mobilising in support of over 1,000 Flying Food Group workers at SFO and LAX airports. The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) Civil Aviation Section passed a resolution after hearing from FFG workers and their union, UNITE HERE, to support

Today the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its Advisory Opinion on the Right to Strike under ILO Convention No. 87, ruling that the right to strike of workers and their organisations is protected as an essential component of freedom of association. ITF General Secretary Stephen Cotton

The ITF leads ‘training of the trainer’ for teachers from all of Indonesia’s civil aviation institutions – expanding successful programme from maritime and rail sectors. Civil aviation institutions across Indonesia will start rolling out new training sessions on stress management and mental health

In just over two weeks, the world’s workers, employers and governments will gather at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva to finalise negotiations on global regulation for platform work. For millions of transport workers, the outcome could change everything. Last year, the ILO made

World’s seafarers’ and dockers’ unions demand immediate end to seafarer humanitarian crisis - call for governments to confront the Flag of Convenience system that enables exploitation and fails to protect seafarers. The world's maritime unions came together at the ITF’s Fair Practices Committee in