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During last week’s ITF mapping workshop, leaders of the Amalgamated Transport & General Workers’ Union (ATGWU) and leaders of five associations of informal transport workers in Uganda held a press conference to announce that the informal associations had affiliated to… Continue Reading →
The Visibility of Women Workers strand of the project has got off with a flying start this week with the Africa Regional Women’s Workshop, being held in Kampala, Uganda. Teams of women activists from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are working… Continue Reading →
Many thanks to everyone who participated in the Africa Regional Leadership Seminar, and for making it such a great success – particularly Zeinabou Habou Barma, and her comrades at SYNATRA, the mentor union in Niger, who hosted the event. You… Continue Reading →
The African Regional Seminar – “Building Strong Unions: Organising Informal Transport Workers” – was successfully concluded on Thursday 27 March, after more than two days of intense and productive discussions. This was the first major event of the ITF… Continue Reading →
Le séminaire régional Afrique du project ITF << Secteur informel du transport >> a débuté aujourd’hui par la visite de 2 importantes gares routières d’autobus et de taxis de Niamey (Niger). Les rencontres ont permis aux participants de discuter avec… Continue Reading →
The ITF Africa regional leadership seminar, as part of the global ITF informal transport workers’ project started today, with a visit to two important bus and taxi stations in Niamey (Niger). The visits allowed participants to talk to informal workers… Continue Reading →
Last minute shift changes, casual contracts, agency fees, poor wages: sound familiar? These are just some of the issues being faced by precarious workers in the transport sector. Precarious workers now make up around 50% of the transport industry workforce…. Continue Reading →
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