Decades of deregulation, subcontracting, and excessive competition have led to a downward spiral in rates of pay, conditions and labour protections for road transport workers, creating economic pressures that make the road transport industry unsafe and unsustainable.
Through organising, contract negotiation, monitoring and enforcement, the ITF is strengthening union capacity to create a safe and sustainable road transport industry.
Road transport workers globally are fighting for decent work that ensures economic employers, governments and transport operators work together to establish a fair price that takes into account the social costs of transport.
Decades of ignoring the sector's decent work shortage – and reliance on pools of exploitable, informal or migrant labour – have meant that trucking companies, and their multinational customers, have not had to invest in their workforces and supply chain. Only 2% of truck drivers are women, and the average age of truck drivers is over 50-years old and rising fast.
The ITF Road Transport Section is using a multi-pronged strategy to build union power, address the shortage of decent work in our industry and create safe and sustainable supply chains.
The three pillars of this strategy are:
The ITF is focused on supporting its affiliated unions to protect worker conditions, pay and rights, while bringing them together on a sector-wide basis to challenge power at the top of supply chains.
The members we represent work in passenger and freight transport for both public and private companies. They include workers in all forms of employment including directly, subcontracted, part-time, temporary, dependent / independent contractor, misclassified and informal.
We represent road transport workers around the world to ensure safe roads, fair pay and decent conditions. We work along the supply chain to hold those at the top accountable for upholding labour standards and stopping the race to the bottom.
We have built alliances with global policy makers, multinational companies and employers’ association to achieve better regulation and higher standards for road transport workers around the world.
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SECTION SECRETARY Noel Coard | |
ASSISTANT SECRETARY Deniz Akdogan | ------------ |
The ITF Road Transport Section has 268 affiliates from 118 countries representing more than 2 million workers.