The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) is pleased to announce that the 17 crew members of the Sea Honest, who were abandoned unpaid and unprovisioned in Algeria in July 2016, have finally returned home.

The ITF is urging all its unions to participate in two major initiatives to promote gender equality and eliminate violence against women in the workplace, which the federation launched on International Women’s Day (8 March).

The ETF, ITF and IDC have joined forces to support Spanish dockworkers whose jobs are at risk because of attempts to reform the port labour system.

Speaking today, International Women’s Day, Diana Holland, chair of the ITF’s (International Transport Workers’ Federation’s) women transport workers’ committee, said: “The 8th of March isn’t just an occasion of celebration, resistance and diversity, it’s also a time to point to achievements and growth. The ITF and its unions stand proud in working with women transport workers making workplaces better, safer and more representative.”

The ITF is calling on its unions to support workers employed by logistics giant XPO in the United States, just days after a demonstration over the company’s ‘abhorrent mistreatment’ of workers.

The father of a cabin crew worker who died, his family believes, from an illness caused by breathing in toxic air on aeroplanes is to meet cabin crew from more than 40 different countries in London.

Air traffic services (ATS) workers around the world are increasingly being targeted in attacks on the right to strike – so the ITF has produced guidance to help their unions navigate the complexities of this more hostile industrial environment.

Over 200 students and faculty members from Myanmar Maritime University participated in a seminar on mental wellbeing, which was organised by the ITF and the Independent Federation of Myanmar Seafarers (IFOMS), in collaboration with the university and student union.

Unions backing 43 dockers sacked in Madagascar are demonstrating at the country’s embassies in three continents worldwide this week – as well as sending messages of protest.

Activists from ITF civil aviation unions meet in London this week to set out their plans for the future of the industry.

The Government of Madagascar is the target of a global campaign launched today (28th February) to defend dockworkers at the ICTSI operated Port of Toamasina in Madagascar. The campaign by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) will see protests outside of Madagascan embassies across three continents. Steve Cotton, ITF General Secretary said this was the first action in an ongoing campaign to get 43 dock workers reinstated after they were sacked for being members of a union.

ITF unions from Sweden and Germany have joined together to put pressure on IKEA to take responsibility for exploitation in its European road transport supply chain.