Addressing 1,600 participants at ver.di’s congress in Leipzig on 22 September, ITF general secretary Steve Cotton urged affiliates and global federations to work together in a concerted bid to tackle today’s challenges facing transport workers.

This week members of the global unions Committee on Workers’ Capital (CWC) met at the ITF in London. The committee is a joint initiative of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the Trade Union Advisory Committee of the OECD (TUAC) and the Global Union Federations (GUFs).

Union leaders from Colombia’s neighbouring coutries have mobilised to show solidarity with ITF affiliated SNTT union in its historic attempt to force a vote for union recognition at DHL.

A global conference looking at the issues, implications and next steps around the workers’ capital agenda is being hosted by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) this week.

Transport unions representing workers of the Northern Corridor – which links East Africa Community (EAC) countries – have met in Kampala, Uganda to discuss violations of human and trade union rights in the region.

Truck drivers at Agility in Kenya are awaiting a court decision following three judicial hearings into the situation at the company.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and its Nigerien member unions have secured an unprecedented whole-nation collective bargaining agreement (CBA) for Niger’s road transport workers.

On Friday a demonstration led by the ITF-affiliated SIELAS union (Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Industria de la Aviación Civil y Similares) was held outside DHL’s offices in Panama City. The protestors, joined by an international ITF delegation of DHL union leaders, denounced the company’s anti-union actions, and called for respect for trade union rights and the lifting of a six-month suspension of negotiations on a collective agreement.

Members of Colombia’s SNTT (Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores del Transporte) union took to the streets of five of the country’s cities yesterday to build union membership and worker confidence ahead of negotiations with the company tomorrow.

Dock workers in Poland staged a protest last Tuesday (21 July) in their ongoing struggle for freedom of association and collective bargaining rights at the Port of Gdansk.

UNI global union used Amazon’s 20th birthday on 15 July to highlight the grim reality for the company’s workers behind the commercial success story, and, along with the ver.di union, urged customers and citizens to send birthday greetings to the global retailer protesting against poor working conditions.

A union training facility in Washington is the setting for the ITF young transport workers’ summer school this week.