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news 03 Mar 2025

Tourism Workers’ Alliance sends solidarity to Antigua and Barbuda Workers’ Union

Global tourism workers’ coalition stands with Antiguan and Barbudan workers against unfounded attacks by national government.

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news 28 Feb 2025

ITF: European Commission’s new ‘Omnibus’ guts sustainability package

EU Commission slashes rules designed to hold companies accountable for key human rights and environmental abuses in their supply chains. The European Commission has announced deep cuts to its environmental and human rights reporting and due diligence standards exempting thousands of businesses from

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Publication 25 Feb 2025

A Toolkit for Unions on LGBT+ Issues

The ITF has always advocated for equality, in the workplace and wider society - it is a core principle of the international labour movement. However, only in recent years have we begun to focus on the particular challenges facing LGBT + transport workers. We are still at the beginning of a long

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Publication 25 Feb 2025

Railway Workers Disability Charter

Workers with disabilities exist across the railway sector in every country globally. Every day, they go to work and support the running of vital public and commercial services which help to move the world. Yet with an overwhelming lack of visibility, the contribution of these workers – and the

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news 20 Feb 2025

World Day of Social Justice: workers’ rights are human rights

At the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) we are using today’s World Day of Social Justice to shine the spotlight on some of the trade unionists from transport unions persecuted around the globe. Union activists often pay a high price simply for defending the rights and dignity of

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news 20 Feb 2025

Cross-border truck drivers in East Africa build union power

On 19 February, 120 cross-border truck drivers joined the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers’ Union of Uganda (ATGWU), raising the union’s membership in this sector to nearly 650 workers. “These drivers are showing real leadership building collective strength across borders,” said ITF General

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news 20 Feb 2025

Pertamina Shipping Partners with ITF on Mental Health

The fleet of Indonesia’s largest company follows the Government of Indonesia in signing an agreement with the ITF. Indonesian state-owned oil company fleet, Pertamina International Shipping, is partnering with the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and Indonesian seafarers’ union and

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news 20 Feb 2025

New report reveals exploitation and abuse of workers in squid fisheries

Distant water fishing fleets registered with the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (SPRFMO) are exploiting and abusing fishers, a new report from the ITF reveals. While the SPRFMO, which oversees the management of key fisheries such as jack mackerel and jumbo squid, has made

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Page 19 Feb 2025

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