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Ugandan, Kenyan and Tanzanian unions discuss informal sector in mentoring visits

The ITF has released a new video documenting the success of recent mentoring meetings when officials from Uganda’s Amalgamated Transport and General Workers’ Union (ATGWU) visited two unions in Kenya to discuss the challenges of organising workers in the informal… Continue Reading →

ATGWU elections successful in Uganda after police disruption ended

On 10 June the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union (ATGWU) in Uganda, which is the project mentor union for East Africa, succeeded in completing its elections to elect officials to represent some 30,000 members in informal workers’ associations. These… Continue Reading →

Mid-Project Mentor Meeting Report now available to download

Download Mid-Project Meeting Report You can download the Mid-Project Meeting Report by clicking the link above. We hope to make Spanish and French versions of the report available in the near future. The Mid-Project Meeting was held in Kathmandu, Nepal,… Continue Reading →

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 →

Bogota Women’s Workshop and Leadership Seminar Reports now available to download

  The Latin America Regional Women’s Workshop and Regional Leadership Seminar were held in Bogota, Colombia from 27th October to 1st November 2014. The two completed meeting reports are now available to download, following a lengthy and productive dialogue between… 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 →

Mid-Project Meeting successfully held in Kathmandu

  The ITF Informal Transport Workers’ Project successfully held its mid-term meeting from 25-27 February in Kathmandu, Nepal. The meeting brought together representatives from the project’s mentor unions in Nepal, Colombia, Uganda, Niger, and the Philippines to share their experiences… 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 →

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