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Following secret negotiations, the United States and Argentinian governments have signed an Open Skies Agreement. Veiled as a ‘modernising’ of the 1985 transport agreement, the deal is detrimental to workers and comes as a complete surprise to Argentinian and US unions. Joseph Tiberi, chair of the

Chair of the Railway Section Steering Committee David Gobé has led a mission to Mali and Senegal, where railway workers are facing enormous difficulties following the shutdown of activity from the company Dakar-Bamako Ferroviaire (DBF). During the mission Gobé met with the nine unions organising

ITF general secretary Stephen Cotton has delivered a clear message to the International Labour Organisation (ILO): now is the time to assert authority as the global standard-bearer for labour rights. Speaking at the ILO’s centenary conference in Geneva, he recognised the challenges of securing the

The first ever international standard on violence and harassment in the world of work has been adopted at the centenary International Labour Conference (ILC) of the International Labour Organization (ILO). The adoption of the new standard comes at the end of a two-year process, following the first

Following on from the ITF riders’ forum, 28 -29 May in London, the Belgium group Collectif des coursier-e-s / KoeriersCollectief has taken to the streets demanding justice for Deliveroo Riders. They were supported by ITF affiliate ABVV-BTB. "Deliveroo thinks it is above the law," says Steven

The US State Department has criticised the Irish Government’s failure to tackle modern slavery, yet again. For the second year in a row, in its Trafficking in Persons Report, the State Department has placed Ireland in ‘Tier 2’, as a result of the Government’s failure to meet the minimum standards

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) today called on the Thai government to effectively implement and enforce the Work in Fishing Convention and take further steps to ratify ILO Conventions 87 and 98, to mitigate the risks of forced labour or labour rights abuses in seafood industry supply chains in Thailand.

ILWU Canada pledged solidarity last week to fellow dockers in Montreal with a gesture unmistakeable in its strength: a raised fist of support from workers fresh off a gruelling bargaining campaign, to their comrades across the country still locked in a brutal battle of their own. On June 13, as the

Despite the name, the National Union of Seafarers Sri Lanka (NUSS) is not just for seafarers. Since 2018 the NUSS has been organising informal dockworkers and fishers, contract logistics workers and, most recently, self-employed taxi drivers. "Other unions didn't want to organise them because it's

When piracy or armed robbery happen at sea, seafarers are on the frontline, at risk of being injured, assaulted, taken hostage or killed. Attacks have increased dramatically impacting thousands of seafarers and their families who fall victim and suffer at the hands of pirates.