The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has welcomed the Australian Senate’s decision to launch an inquiry into flag of convenience shipping.

Dockworkers who are members of trade unions affiliated to the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) are in training in St Lucia this week on a new tool to assist them in bargaining, negotiating, campaigning and organising in their ports.

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has ordered the country’s national airline, Avianca, to pay an unprecedented sum estimated to be around USD2 million to workers whom it cheated of pay and benefits in a long term plan to prevent staff joining trade unions.

Unions representing workers along the oil supply chain in the Arab World have agreed strategies to work together more closely in order to increase workers’ power in Algeria and Iraq.

In a dramatic judgment today, the ILO (International Labour Organization) found Qatar guilty of allowing its state-owned airline, Qatar Airways (QR), to violate international and national agreements and institutionalise discrimination.

Activists trained by the ITF and its affiliate Unite the Union have succeeded in setting up a hub office within Immingham Port – one of four major ports on the UK’s Humber river, Europe’s eighth largest port complex – to organise and forge alliances across job sectors.

The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) and Seafarers’ Rights International (SRI) report progress being made on the urgent issue of the criminalisation of seafarers. This follows the positive reception from the IMO’s (International Maritime Organization) Legal Committee to a paper co-sponsored by the ITF, the International Federation of Shipmasters' Associations (IFSMA), the Comité Maritime International (CMI) and InterManager.

Geneva-based United Nations agency the ILO (International Labour Organization) today found Qatar guilty of allowing its state-owned airline, Qatar Airways, to violate international and national agreements and institutionalise discrimination. The case was successfully brought against Qatar by the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and the ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation) (see http://goo.gl/Ka5inH.)

The civil aviation branch of the ITF-affiliated federation of transport CGT in France has condemned the award of the French Legion d'Honneur to Akbar al-Baker, Qatar Airways group chief executive, for 'services to aviation', because of the airline’s discriminatory and unacceptable treatment of its staff.

The ITF-affiliated Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union (ATGWU) in Uganda succeeded in completing its elections on 10 June without police disruption or presence after a public pledge by the inspector general of police on Sunday that he would not allow the force to operate outside the law.

Activists from the Scottish TUC and Scottish football fans took to the Edinburgh streets on Friday, protesting about migrants' working conditions during a Scotland-Qatar friendly football match … and the ITF joined in.

Operations resumed in Callao, Peru’s largest port terminal on Friday, as operator APMT stepped “back from crisis" and signed a two year agreement delivering improved pay, health and union benefits for some 650 port workers. Members of the ITF-affiliated SUTRAMPORCPC union returned to work on 5 June following 24 days of strike action over fair pay and against anti-union discriminatory practices.