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Unions across the world are outraged to learn that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal minority government had teamed up with Canada’s Conservative opposition in the early hours of Thursday morning to progress legislation to rip away Montréal dockworkers’ right to strike. “Justin Trudeau’s government has

A new tie-up to strengthen union influence along the US West Coast forms a major plank in the fight against global companies who exploit the chain of supply. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) have committed to working

The world’s seafarers yesterday took the extraordinary decision to shut down negotiations over the future of seafarers’ minimum wages with national shipowners represented by the International Chamber of Shipping. The seafarers’ unions said they would prefer to tackle the shipping companies ‘head-on’

Confidence in the safety of transport is vital for our economic recovery, argues Paddy Crumlin, President of the International Transport Workers’ Federation. Yet too many countries are ignoring WHO advice to prioritise transport workers for Covid-19 vaccination.

Global transport unions today renewed their support for leaders of the State Railway Workers’ Union of Thailand (SRUT) following the lodging of a new appeal to Thailand’s Central Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct to overturn prison sentences and punitive fines handed down by Thai

Seafarer Mohammad Aisha is tonight boarding an airplane to return to his native Syria, ending a four-year battle where he was forced to live on an abandoned ship in the Suez Canal while the vessel waited to be sold. Mr Aisha is free because the ITF offered to have one of its union representatives in

After a long and bitter struggle with APM Terminals Monrovia in Liberia, ITF affiliate the Dock Workers’ Union of Liberia (DOWUL) today won their struggle to reinstate 24 dockers with immediate effect. The dockers were wrongly suspended for taking action at the terminal to defend their jobs and

The six-day blockage of the Suez Canal and its welcomed refloating has shed new light on the critical job done by tug and towage workers. But unless industry arrests the current ‘race to the bottom’ and workers’ safety concerns are addressed, the world could be in store for another Ever Given-type

Representatives of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) Sunday boarded the MV Ever Given (IMO: 9811000 ) to check on the health and welfare of the crew. The cargo vessel is currently anchored in Lake Bitter, in the Suez Canal system, as Egyptian authorities and the vessel’s insurer

A new report by human rights, labour and environmental organisations has exposed the latest attempt by employers to satisfy consumer concerns on the welfare of fishers and seafood workers while taking minimal action to stop abuse and exploitation in high seas fisheries. The FISH Standard is supposed