The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has urged governments to use the coming year to rebuild trust and reach ...

Concerted strike action by lashers from International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) affiliate, FNV Havens, has won a ...

Improvements won by DOWUL include a 100 percent increase in educational assistance, 50 percent increases to transportation ...

The strike is the biggest in Rotterdam since 1991, when all lashers – a smaller number than those employed today – went on ...

Drawing on examples from Australia, Brazil, Canada and the USA, Domestic Maritime Policies: a Focus on National Security ...

The ITF Civil Aviation Section, representing aviation workers across the globe, stands in full solidarity with our affiliates ...

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and Brazil’s leading transport trade union confederations – ITF-affiliated Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Transportes Aquaviário e ...

Leading international maritime associations and organisations reiterate our strong support for adoption by the world’s ...

A flag of convenience (FOC) vessel is one that flies the flag of a country other than the country of ownership. Ships must be registered with a single country, even though they often operate in ...

An ITF-affiliated seafarers’ union based in Iran has achieved a major organising victory. The Iranian Merchant Mariners Syndicate (IMMS) has won a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) for ...

A week of strike action by 700 FNV dockworkers brought major Dutch port to standstill –strike action set to resume on Friday without progress. The biggest ever strike of lashers in the Netherlands is ...

Maritime unions have described the shocking, systematic theft of seafarers’ wages aboard international cargo ships plying trade in Australian waters as a national disgrace. The revelations are ...