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The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), representing millions of road transport workers worldwide, has launched a Global Safe Rates Action Week, running from August 26 to September 1, 2024. The global campaign underscores the urgent need for fair pay, decent working conditions, and

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and global railway union leaders are throwing their full weight behind nearly 10,000 railway workers across Canada who have been brutally locked out by their employers, Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC). Despite

Pakistan transport unions defend Karachi Dock Labour Board, protecting 2,700 dockers’ jobs – but brace for struggle to continue. Dockers mobilising in Pakistan have saved the Karachi Dock Labour Board (KDLB) – and with it, the jobs, decent wages and conditions it guarantees for 2,700 dock workers in

Young workers are both the present and the future of the global economy. On International Youth Day, 12 August, the ITF’s message is to stress the importance for transport unions to not just recruit young workers, but to actively promote and support young workers’ structures within unions. Every day

As we saw when the recent tech outage hit the aviation industry, workers step in when technology fails. Behind the scenes we know this is a regular occurrence, even as fewer workers are employed because of a supposed reduced need for them. The outage shows that technology's short-term gains come at

With deep regret, the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) mourns the passing of Alexander Mikhailovich Bodnya, Vice-President of the Seafarers Union of Russia (SUR) and President of the SUR Baltic Regional Organization, at the age of 72. Alexander's maritime career began after