International Transport Workers' Federation | |
Founded | June 1896 |
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Headquarters | London, SE1 United Kingdom |
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Members | 19.7 million |
Key people | Stephen Cotton, General Secretary Paddy Crumlin, President, Rob Johnston, Assistant General Secretary, |
Affiliations | 677 affiliated unions |
Website | itfglobal.org |
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is a democratic global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded in 1896. In 2017 the ITF had 677 member organizations in 149 countries, representing a combined membership of 19.7 million transport workers[1] in all industrial transport sectors: civil aviation, dockers, inland navigation, seafarers, road transport, railways, fisheries, urban transport and tourism. The ITF represents the interests of transport workers' unions in bodies that take decisions affecting jobs, employment conditions or safety in the transport industry.