ITF report finds violence and harassment against aviation workers commonplace and sets out clear recommendations for industry and regulators to make workplaces safer. The report ‘Make Work Safe: Eliminating Violence and Harassment Against Aviation Workers’, commissioned by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), found that 70% of aviation workers regularly experience verbal abuse at work. […]
The COVID-19 pandemic is unlike any other external shock encountered by the global aviation industry. Border restrictions and quarantine measures have devastated the aviation industry. Planes have been grounded. Tens of thousands of jobs have been lost. Aircraft manufacturing is idle. A new deal is needed for the aviation industry that must focus on Relief, […]
Message from ITF general secretary Stephen Cotton Dear friends, I am proud to be the general secretary of an organisation that represents transport workers at this time of need. The outbreak and spread of Covid-19 has once again served to highlight just how reliant humanity and global supply chains are on transport workers keeping the […]
