A resolution drafted by the ITF, the Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA In
The ITF is closely following all advice from the World Health Organisation (WHO) regarding the current outbreak which originated in Wuhan city, a major domestic and international transport hub.
The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) have launched a petition calling on the Australian government to
Seafarers’ rights is a complex area since your rights can exist at different levels and they can be overlapping and sometimes conflicting.
International maritime unions have urged the Morrison government to reverse the decline of the Australian shipping industry and invest in the creation of a new strategic fleet to aid Australia’s emergency response capacity to natural disasters and move to protect the nation’s ec
Workers’ unions affiliated to the ITF have formed a new group in Papua New Guinea to cooperate more closely together.
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) today call upon ship operators to return lashing to shore based dock workers.
Seventy crew on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship off the coast of Japan have been infected with the Covid-19 virus, the International Transport Workers’ Federation report. All remaining crew, predominately Filipino and Indonesian, are to begin the process to be repat
UPDATE
Wednesday, 1 April 2020, a message from the organisers:
A high-level transport symposium in Johannesburg, South Africa has brought together the leaders of eight major unions to discuss how to appeal to the 76 percent of transport workers in the country that are unorganised.
