A robust railway network is seen as part of Europe’s decarbonisation strategy. But the railways in the Balkans have been long neglected and the modernisation process is slow.Read the full article
The electrification of transport in Latin America is seeking to impact positively on the environment, equality and inclusiveness, but it also entails losses for workers, especially informal transport workers. The changes and the impact in terms of awareness are already being [...]Read the full article
Every year, thousands of ships around the world reach the end of their lives. The vast majority meet their end in South Asia, where, every year, almost 70 per cent of the vessels are dismantled on just three beaches, often with no regard for the workers’ health and [...]Read the full article
Livia Spera:“Profit-focused policies have only led to a transport industry defined by poor wages and poor working conditions, as the skyrocketing profits of companies mean that transport workers are the ones paying the price.”Read the full article
Should going on holiday be a privilege? What is the value of the free time we have these days? Who benefits when travelling is cheap, whether it’s thanks to an abundance of available accommodation or a reduction in travel costs?Read the full article
Eoin Coates:Social dialogue and collective bargaining are needed in every airport and with every airline to ensure working conditions improve across the industry and that cabin crew, pilots and ground handling workers are paid the wages they are [...]Read the full article
In Europe, growing awareness of the social inequalities in exposure to air pollution is as yet to be translated into public policy, despite the work being done by scientists and citizens to analyse and raise consciousness about the impact on the most exposed [...]Read the full article
Every year, thousands of seafarers are abandoned by their shipowners while the world looks on with indifference. Trapped on board without wages until their ships are sold, some spend months and even years in their floating prisons.Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:“No sufficiently solid legal framework currently exists to prevent the potential problems that lie ahead, include the possibility of direct violent clashes.”Read the full article
Environmental campaigners say that the new airport plan is at odds with the government’s commitment to reduce emissions and become carbon neutral by 2050.Read the full article
Bruno Dobrusin:Cities and public transport will be essential in the recovery from Covid. However, current narratives often miss the crucial role played by public transport workers, their representatives, and the need for a just transition that ensures a decent livelihood for [...]Read the full article
Ruwan Subasinghe:“What this cat and mouse game with Uber highlights more broadly is the ever-widening imbalance between capital and labour.”Read the full article
KPTU-TruckSol has built workers’ power and pushed for regulations that have improved the livelihoods of South Korean road transport workers.Read the full article
Torn between its international climate commitments to promote industrial projects that create clean energy sources and its reliance on still dominant polluting industries, Senegal must find a model of transition that is both just and capable of maintaining a balance in its progress towards [...]Read the full article
With crew changes suspended in March to avoid supply chain disruptions, some seafarers have now been at high sea for as many as 17 months, well beyond the maximum continuous period of 11 months. The risk of accidents continues to [...]Read the full article
“Technological changes are coming for us, but we need to implement them together with workers. If you want technological innovation, you also need human capital. Without humans, innovation isn’t possible.”Read the full article
If all the projects are successfully completed, by 2040 the east African coastline could be home to the busiest chain of ports outside of China.Read the full article
The Bulgarian government has decided to build an EU-funded motorway across the Kresna Gorge, the country’s most important nature reserve. The decision brushes aside 20 years of mobilisations by locals and environmentalists.Read the full article
Sharan Burrow:As a publicly listed company, Uber will have to maintain growth and show movement towards profitability to convince investors of its value. This can only be bad news for workers.Read the full article
Mark Dickinson:“We are determined to keep up pressure on the shipowners – not just because we believe that workers should be paid more, but because high skills and higher wages offer our industry a better future than the alternative.”Read the full article
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has committed to a 50 per cent reduction in CO² emissions by 2050, but recent studies have raised concerns amongst the residents of port cities like Marseille about the current effects on their [...]Read the full article
With one of the highest population densities in the world and an unabating love for cars, paralysing traffic jams are a daily reality in Malta. Only improved public transport and a reduction in the number of cars on the island can break the [...]Read the full article
After decades of ever-declining numbers of formal transport workers, the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers’ Union is on the up with close to 60,000 members.Read the full article
Sweden has committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2045. The country’s energy transition is already well underway and the necessary structural changes are being made with the support of companies and the trade unions.Read the full article
Steve Cotton:The ITF is not against new transport technologies, but we are against a return in the 21st century to the employment conditions of the 19th century.Read the full article
“Uber lowered its rates, arguing that customers had been lost because of the ban and that lower prices were needed to win them back. It was already a tough job two years ago. Now, it’s a disaster.”Read the full article
“Out of 13 workers sentenced for life imprisonment, 12 are Maruti union officials. 117 workers are declared innocent by the court, but without any reason they have served more than four years in jail without bail. Who will compensate them for their years in [...]Read the full article
“TÜMTİS, along with other Turkish unions, has repeatedly faced challenges from often hostile local employers who have been emboldened by a government-sponsored culture of disregarding union rights.”Read the full article