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Watch our video interviews from Kathmandu!

  During the project’s mid-term meeting in Kathmandu, some of the meeting participants took part in video interviews. In these interviews, representatives from mentor unions talked about their unions, and reflected on their experience of organising informal workers in their… Continue Reading →

Nepalese unions need your help to rebuild, says ITF

The ITF has established a special fund for donations to trade unions in Nepal following the earthquake in April that claimed the lives of thousands of people there. The Federation’s four member unions in Nepal have been intensely involved in the… Continue Reading →

San Diego: The United Taxi Workers Victory and the Struggle for a New Labor Movement

  San Diego Free Press .org / November 17, 2014 / Jim Miller Last Monday’s victory for the United Taxi Workers of San Diego provided a much-needed boost for local labor. After a year that has included some tough losses… Continue Reading →

Organising precarious female transport workers is “crucial to the fight of the ITF”

Several project participants talked about their project work at the 2014 ITF Congress held in Sofia in August. Souley Zeinabou Habou Barba from the SYNATRA union in Niger has kindly shared the statement which she made at Congress with the… Continue Reading →

“Organiser les femmes travailleuses du transport dans les emplois precaire…est crucial dans la lutte de l’ITF”

Plusieurs participants au projet ont parlé de leur travail à 2014 Congrès de l’ITF qui a eu lieu à Sofia en Août. Souley Zeinabou Habou Barba du syndicat SYNATRA (Niger) a gentiment partagé la déclaration qu’elle a fait au Congrès avec le… Continue Reading →

Labornotes: Denver’s Immigrant Taxi Drivers Build Unionized Workers Co-op

  Labornotes.org / October 30, 2014 / Minsun Ji This month 800 immigrant taxi drivers in Denver—from 24 different countries in Africa—joined the Communications Workers (CWA) Local 7777. They hope to break out of poverty and challenge the workplace abuse… Continue Reading →

Transport Workers Fighting Back! Organising Globally! – ITF Action Week, 6-12 October 2014

  On 6-12 October 2014, ITF road transport and railway unions and their members will come together to take part in the ITF Action Week. Under the slogan ‘Transport Workers Fighting Back! Organising Globally!’ unions will organise a variety of… Continue Reading →

Le séminaire régional sur le leadership à Manille

Le séminaire ‘Asia Regional Leadership’ organisé par ITF a été lieu hier, le 21 mai, avec le mappage des activité dans un des terminaux de les très connu «Jeepney » buses de Manille, dirigé par les travailleurs informel. Les participants de… Continue Reading →

Leadership Seminar in Manila

  The ITF Asia Regional Leadership Seminar was launched yesterday, May 21, with a mapping activity in one of the terminals for Manila’s famous ‘Jeepney’ buses, run by informal operators. Participants from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand, along with… Continue Reading →

L’atelier de mappage à l’intention des femmes s’achève sur des mesures pour faire avancer l’organisation syndicale des travailleuses informelles

En Afrique, l’atelier régional sur le mappage des travailleuses informelles des transports organisé à l’intention des femmes a terminé vendredi le 25 avril après trois journées très réussies de discussions, de formation, de partage d’expériences et d’activités pratiques de mappage…. Continue Reading →

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