When Transport for New South Wales took Bob Newham, a train driver of 37 years, to South Korea to see how driver-only trains would work in Australia, he felt a wrenching sensation. “The way it was actually built, you couldn’t open the side doors to look out,” he says. If someone falls between the
Women's work and participation in fisheries industry often remain invisible, this lack of recognition is also one of the contributing factors towards making port a unsafe workplaces for women. When men and women enter the port to earn a living as a fisherfolk, women face different reality which
Two years on from the sinking of the Ingenika and tragic loss of two of the mariners onboard , cost pressures are still putting tug crews’ lives in danger, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has warned – will we never learn? This week, eight charges were filed against Wainwright
The recent arrest and detention by the Irish Naval Service of a Spanish owned, German flagged fishing vessel , and subsequent prosecution of its skipper over 12 alleged fisheries violations, shows that the law in Ireland affords greater protection to fish than to migrant fishers on working onboard
Evidence of striking truck drivers being unreasonably treated as criminals and trumped-up investigations being used against bona fide unions in a recent dispute in South Korean will be added to a legal challenge being brought against the country’s government by the International Transport Worker’s
Between the 18th and 20th of January 2023, a delegation from the ITF and ETF visited Ukraine to meet workers in the railway and maritime sectors. The solidarity fund set up by the ITF in March 2022 made it possible to provide Ukrainian transport workers with a wide range of necessities, including
Delivery drivers working for Danish online e-commerce retailer nemlig.com will receive vastly improved pay and working conditions thanks to a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) struck by union 3F Transport. It is the culmination of a hard-fought campaign by the International Transport Workers’
Last year, Troy Pearson and Charley Cragg died while towing a barge bound for a Rio Tinto power station in rough seas and strong, icy winds. They were pressured to work despite the unsafe conditions.