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Joint ITF–JNG Statement: Warlike Operations Area in Strait of Hormuz continues under weekly review
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the Joint Negotiating Group (JNG), as social partners of the International Bargaining Forum (IBF), have agreed to maintain the designation of…
Statement by ITF General Secretary on the US-Iran Peace Framework
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) cautiously welcomes the US-Iran peace framework – but words on paper must now translate into action for the transport workers who have paid the…
ITF in Ukraine: international solidarity and ensuring the future of the maritime sector
The ITF and the ITF Seafarers’ Trust are in Odesa, seeing the conditions faced by the workers keeping Ukraine and the world moving forward.It is now more than four years since the deadliest war seen…
100 days of war: 100 days of transport workers paying with their lives
100 days have passed since the United States of America and Israel launched ‘Operation Epic Fury’ against Iran. One hundred days of a war that civilian transport workers did not start, cannot end and…
The system is broken, we have had enough
World’s seafarers’ and dockers’ unions demand immediate end to seafarer humanitarian crisis - call for governments to confront the Flag of Convenience system that enables exploitation and fails to…