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JOINT PRESS RELEASE A ground-breaking collaboration between unions and a labour-based human rights group has today announced plans to build and launch a pilot program to identify and combat human rights violations on commercial fishing vessels in the United Kingdom. The announced partnership between

On August 23rd, the Attorney General of the Fijian Government launched a public attack on the ITF's legitimacy. This came after we, together with the Fiji Trades Union Congress, exposed financial mismanagement that is putting the pension funds of hundreds of thousands of working people in Fiji at

Trade Unions have called on the Government to ratify ILO Convention 190 on ending violence and harassment in the world of work The convention has already been ratified by 19 countries around the world, including the Central African Republic, Mauritius, Namibia, Somalia and South Africa The call

Major airlines used pandemic as an excuse to force workers into contracts with worse terms, new research shows.  Employers including Qantas, Ryanair and British Airways criticised for overzealous cost cutting measures despite airlines receiving USD $137bn in state aid. Eroded working conditions have

Union leaders from the US East Coast, Canada and international transport worker federations have joined negotiations between dockers and Pacific coast employers in a significant show of solidarity. The International Longshore Workers’ Union (ILWU), which is leading contract talks for US Pacific

Image caption: The ITF’s Noel Coard (pictured right with KPTU’s Wol-San Lim) said 20 million workers stood behind demands for Hite-Jinro to reinstate sacked workers and pay a decent rate South Korea’s biggest alcohol maker Hite-Jinro must pay drivers a decent wage, the International Transport

Dockers on the picket line at the Port of Felixstowe, the UK’s largest container terminal, told a delegation from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) that management is offering a real terms pay cut and refusing to talk. Unite the Union members voted to strike for eight days