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Unions remember workers lost to negligent employers and safety standards Today, the 28th of April, marks International Workers’ Memorial Day, when trade unions around the world remember and mourn the loss of the colleagues, friends and family who never came home from work. Most of these tragedies

LONDON, BRUSSELS, GRÄFENHAUSEN — After weeks of striking, around 60 truck drivers at the Gräfenhausen rest area in Germany have won their battle against Polish consortium Lukmaz, Agmaz and Imperia. The drivers, who are mostly from Uzbekistan and Georgia, have collectively won back over €300,000 in

At the ITF Railways Section conference in Johannesburg last month, we set out our vision for the world’s railways – a system which functions on behalf of people, with workers and passengers at the heart of decision-making. That is what we demand when we demand Safe and Sustainable Rail, and on the

More than 200,000 inland waterway transport workers in Bangladesh have won a tremendous 60 percent pay rise and greatly improved working conditions. The win comes after months of strike action and negotiations between the workers’ unions and vessel owners. Naujan work aboard thousands of riverboats

St John’s, Antigua — The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) and the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers Associations (IUF) have joined forces to create the Tourism Workers’ Alliance. The Alliance is a collaborative trade

New Jersey’s port is free of the meddling of the archaic Waterfront Commission after the unanimous decision on Tuesday (18 February 2023) by the United States Supreme Court to allow the state to quit the regulatory body. The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) has campaigned for years to

St John’s, Antigua — The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) ― the democratic, global union federation of 670 transport unions in 147 countries, representing over 18 million transport workers across the globe ― Tourism Services Conference began today in Antigua & Barbuda. Hosted by the

Thirteen Filipino seafarers have made it home after more than five months aboard an abandoned livestock carrier ship, the Yangtze Harmony, thanks to the intervention of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF). The ship’s owners abandoned the vessel and its crew after the ship was

Unions are welcoming a decision from the EU maritime watchdog which avoids up to 50,000 Philippines-certified crew being barred from working aboard European-owned ships. The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) announced last week that it will continue to recognise STCW certificates (Standards of