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News | 11 Apr 2016 Press Release

Maersk signals way forward on ITF agreements on charters

Maersk will now change their charter party agreements to include a requirement that the charter vessel owners must document that the vessel is covered by an ITF...

News | 11 Apr 2016

Unions and workers agree XPO Logistics strategy

The ITF brought together nine unions from Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and the United States for this first XPO strategy meeting, on 6 April in...

News | 10 Apr 2016

ITF Maersk network to set out priorities ahead of company AGM

The network is made up of transport unions that represent maritime workers on vessels and in ports owned or operated by a Maersk Group company. The network’s...

News | 08 Apr 2016

Workers to benefit from stronger unions in Venezuela

ITF regional secretary Antonio Fritz and deputy regional secretary Edgar Diaz held a seminar in Caracas on 29-31 March with the Federación Bolivariana de...

News | 07 Apr 2016 Press Release

ITF comment on Panama Papers revelations

General secretary Stephen Cotton said: "Money laundering, terrorist financing and tax evasion are all clearly unacceptable practices and at odds with the global...

News | 31 Mar 2016 Press Release

Australian senate hearing raises “shocking concerns”

The fact that the captain of the ‘death ship’ Sage Sagittarius – on which three people have died in suspicious circumstances – was allowed to work off the...

News | 18 Mar 2016

ITF unions share successes to mark International Women’s Day

That's from Christine at the Zimbabwe Amalgamated Railway Workers’ Union and it's just one of the stories shared to mark International Women’s Day last...

News | 17 Mar 2016

Support global action day for fast food workers

The IUF (International Union of Food, Agricultural and Hospitality Workers) organises the day. It hopes that unions worldwide will organise protests outside local,...