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Publication 07 Sep 2022

Supply Chain Principles

Supply chains are only as strong as their weakest link. Human rights, including labourstandards, are therefore a critical component of supply chains. The ITF’s Supply Chain Principles set out how governments, investors and especially multinational enterprises and customers of transport supply chains

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news 31 Aug 2022

Global union federation, leading labour-based human rights organisation join forces to end exploitation in UK fishing industry

JOINT PRESS RELEASE A ground-breaking collaboration between unions and a labour-based human rights group has today announced plans to build and launch a pilot program to identify and combat human rights violations on commercial fishing vessels in the United Kingdom. The announced partnership between

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news 31 Aug 2022

Who is the ITF? A response to the Fijian Government

On August 23rd, the Attorney General of the Fijian Government launched a public attack on the ITF's legitimacy. This came after we, together with the Fiji Trades Union Congress, exposed financial mismanagement that is putting the pension funds of hundreds of thousands of working people in Fiji at

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news 26 Aug 2022

Trade Unions call on Ghanaian government and employers to step up fight against violence against women in transport workplaces

Trade Unions have called on the Government to ratify ILO Convention 190 on ending violence and harassment in the world of work The convention has already been ratified by 19 countries around the world, including the Central African Republic, Mauritius, Namibia, Somalia and South Africa The call

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Worker stories

Informal work in Senegal

Exhausted workers having to work long hours even when sick, without taking time off for fear of being sacked, are the high-risk consequences of informal working in the transport sector in Senegal. Workers face the stark choice of working under those conditions to deliver a vital service or face

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news 26 Aug 2022

Airlines used pandemic to erode working conditions for thousands of staff, report finds 

Major airlines used pandemic as an excuse to force workers into contracts with worse terms, new research shows.  Employers including Qantas, Ryanair and British Airways criticised for overzealous cost cutting measures despite airlines receiving USD $137bn in state aid. Eroded working conditions have

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Publication 25 Aug 2022

Aviation civile: Réponse des employeurs au Covid-19 dans le secteur aérien

Rapport sur la réponse des employeurs au Covid-19 dans le secteur aérien.

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news 25 Aug 2022

From east to west, dockers unions' unite behind ILWU in US Pacific negotiations

Union leaders from the US East Coast, Canada and international transport worker federations have joined negotiations between dockers and Pacific coast employers in a significant show of solidarity. The International Longshore Workers’ Union (ILWU), which is leading contract talks for US Pacific

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news 23 Aug 2022

South Korean truck drivers call out alcohol giant from the rooftops as strike continues

Image caption: The ITF’s Noel Coard (pictured right with KPTU’s Wol-San Lim) said 20 million workers stood behind demands for Hite-Jinro to reinstate sacked workers and pay a decent rate South Korea’s biggest alcohol maker Hite-Jinro must pay drivers a decent wage, the International Transport

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news 22 Aug 2022

ITF delegation joins Felixstowe picket line as managers refuse to negotiate

Dockers on the picket line at the Port of Felixstowe, the UK’s largest container terminal, told a delegation from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) that management is offering a real terms pay cut and refusing to talk. Unite the Union members voted to strike for eight days

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Supply Chain Principles

Global union federation, leading labour-based human rights organisation join forces to end exploitation in UK fishing industry

Who is the ITF? A response to the Fijian Government

Trade Unions call on Ghanaian government and employers to step up fight against violence against women in transport workplaces

Informal work in Senegal

Airlines used pandemic to erode working conditions for thousands of staff, report finds

Aviation civile: Réponse des employeurs au Covid-19 dans le secteur aérien

From east to west, dockers unions' unite behind ILWU in US Pacific negotiations

South Korean truck drivers call out alcohol giant from the rooftops as strike continues

ITF delegation joins Felixstowe picket line as managers refuse to negotiate

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