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Gig-economy workers are treated abysmally as app-based employers use underhanded definitions and loopholes in the law to duck their responsibilities. The platform economy is a challenge to the working conditions and labour rights of all workers. Global union federations are demanding that

Airport workers have won back their jobs, thwarting attempts by TAV Airports in Tunisia to use Covid-19 as cover to break up union activities. Tunisian affiliate the Fédération Nationale des Transports (FNT) and ITF campaigned — and won — against the unfair and illegal dismissal of 109 workers at

As International Pride Month 2021 draws to a close, the world’s voice for transport workers reiterates our call for LGBT+ workers and their allies to get involved in genuine movements for change, such as trade unions – rather than rely on tokenistic ‘rainbow capitalism’ – as the best way to build a fairer, more equal world.

Fisher leaders from the ITF Fishers' Rights Network are calling on the Thai Government to enforce contract provisions. The fishers' demand for enforcement follows the release of new survey results that highlight systemic abuses of migrant fishers' fundamental rights. The FRN research, based on

Ship owners should stop attempting to perform crew changes in northern Mozambique while seafarers are at risk of attack or kidnapping by violent terrorist groups operating in the region. The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) supports the calls by the Norwegian Maritime Unions (NMU)

Join the International Safe Rates Summit (30 June - 1 July): let’s save lives and improve pay and conditions across road transport.

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As the International Labour Organization Convention 190 on violence and harassment in the world of work comes into force on 25 June 2021, global unions are launching a toolkit to support the Convention 190 (C190) and its Recommendation 206 (R206). The manual will provide thousands of unions around

As governments around the world kickstart their Covid recovery plans, research launched today by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) argues that it is a pivotal moment for governments to inject long-term funding into public transport systems. The global report says that emergency

The Nepal Oil Corporation has acceded to union pressure and started vaccinating road tanker drivers against Covid-19. All countries need to treat people in transport as key workers and prioritise them for vaccination, ITF has been arguing since April . This is a humanitarian and economic imperative