The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), representing millions of road transport workers worldwide, has launched a Global Safe Rates Action Week, running from August 26 to September 1, 2024. The global campaign underscores the urgent need for fair pay, decent working conditions, and corporate accountability within road transport supply chains. The action week coincides with the implementation of groundbreaking new Safe Rates legislation in Australia which sets a new global benchmark for fair pay, decent working conditions and corporate accountability within road transport supply chains by establishing an Expert Panel of Australia’s Fair Work Commission to set standards. (....)