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Slogan flag; image located by Esteban Rivera, 26 April 2023
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is a democratic
global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded on
July 27, 1896 in London as the International Federation of Ship, Dock
and River Workers, amidst the International Socialist and Trade Union
Congress. It changed its name during the London Congress in 1898 to
adopt its current denomination after expanding to include transport
workers in non-maritime industries. In 2017 the ITF had 677 member
organizations in 149 countries, representing a combined membership of
19.7 million transport workers 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.
Esteban Rivera, 26 April 2023