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Road transport companies are exploiting Covid-19 to further exploit truck drivers, cut transport prices, pay, conditions and health and safety across Europe, an investigation from FNV-VNB, ITF and IUF has revealed. The new report and documentary video released today reveals that human trafficking is

Four months without pay and 48 hours without food, 47 seafarers off the coast of the UK are desperate to get home to their families. The mainly Indian crew are from the passenger vessel Astoria . They began a hunger strike demanding the wages owed to them and repatriation home in mid-June, after

Today is the ‘Day of the Seafarer’ a day when we should celebrate seafarers, but this year, as world’s seafarers are let down by governments there is little to celebrate This year the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), whose member unions represent 1.4 million of the world’s

The ITF and the Joint Negotiating Group, along with the International Chamber of Shipping have worked tirelessly since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic on finding solutions to the issue of crew changes. The ITF’s “Enough is enough” campaign is aimed at pushing the various government and

On Wednesday, Pope Francis released a video statement in which he paid tribute to seafarers and fishers, and acknowledged the difficult challenges they have been forced to endure due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Speaking directly to seafarers and fishers, hundreds of thousands of whom have been

A week after ILA and ILWU dockers shut down ports on the east and west coasts of the United States in solidarity with George Floyd and countless other victims of police brutality and racial injustice; our international dockers family is standing with our sisters and brothers of the ILWU and ILWU

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) fully reject Israel’s plan to annexe Palestinian lands on July 1, and support International Trade Union Confederation’s (ITUC) statement opposing this illegal annexation. The ITF continues to work closely with the ITUC and join international

The world’s busiest canal and the lives of the thousands of workers who keep it running are at risk, says ITF affiliate UCOC (Unión de Capitanes y Oficiales de Cubierta). The Panama Canal Administration (ACP) has begun to cut corners on Covid safety measures previously agreed with the union. The