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The global climate summit, COP27, concluded today with a breakthrough on the Global South’s decades-long call for a fund to pay for climate-related loss and damage. Delivering the closing statement for trade unions, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) welcomed this step, as well as

Angela Ransome has been a bus driver in Ontario, Canada since 2014. She is a member of UNIFOR, and loves her job. “I can drive anything, I like driving for a living, I like to have my office as windows and view, and I am moving under nice weather and sometimes under bad weather. I love doing what I

The Tanzanian flag has ducked its responsibilities to this seafarer and has replied only once with a holding response to the International Transport Workers’ Federation’s (ITF) many queries. Do you remember what you were doing 10 years ago? In 2012, you may have been buying a brand-new iPhone 5. Or

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) today publishes a major new report on ‘Just Cities’ and women public transport workers in Latin America. The report, Just cities and women public transport workers in Latin America , explores the current situation for women public transport

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has called on the Government of Eswatini to end violent attacks on transport workers. Last week, on10 November, Eswatini ’s armed forces opened fire on a group of transport workers protesting the arrest and detention of five colleagues, leaving

Unions have welcomed a strong rebuke of Maersk-owned Svitzer Australia by the Fair Work Commission after the court blocked the company’s planned lockout of its entire Australian workforce which was due to begin this Friday. The world’s biggest shipper is being urged to return to the negotiating

After nearly four years of negotiations between three Australian unions and local Svitzer management, the tug subsidiary of global maritime and logistics behemoth AP Moller Maersk has abandoned principles on respecting fundamental labour rights and constructive employee relations by imposing a