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News | 17 Jul 2014 Press Release

Bangladesh ferry sinking, ITF comment

Commenting on Friday’s Bangladesh ferry sinking, Nick Bramley, chair of the ITF inland navigation section and Nautilus International senior national secretary in...

News | 17 Jul 2014

Cockroft hands over ITF reins

On David Cockroft’s final day as ITF general secretary, 31 May, he sent a personal message to the organisation’s affiliates in which he formally handed over the...

News | 17 Jul 2014 Press Release

Bob Carnegie case: ITF statement

ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) president Paddy Crumlin today spoke out in defence of trade unionist Bob Carnegie and in strong condemnation of...

News | 17 Jul 2014

ETF congress discusses work priorities

Affiliates at the ETF 2013 congress on 29-31 May in Berlin, Germany assessed ETF activities over the past four years and set the organisation’s work priorities...

News | 17 Jul 2014

ITF supports empowering maritime women conference

An international conference on empowering women maritime workers brought together over 100 academics, union representatives, merchant navy and naval officers and...

News | 17 Jul 2014 Press Release

POAL latest: ITF comment

In the wake of initial signs of positive movement in the struggle by the Maritime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) to gain a fair and just contract with the Ports of...

News | 17 Jul 2014

ITF Asia Pacific conference agrees to escalate organising

The main outcome of the meeting was the agreement to escalate organising over the next four years across the industrial sections in strategic hubs, corridors, key...

News | 17 Jul 2014

HIV positive transport workers building Kenya network

Eighteen HIV positive transport workers from unions across Kenya recently came together for the first time to share their experiences and discuss how to develop the...