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Trade unions around the world are involved in activities this week as part of the International Transport Workers’ Federation road and rail action week.

The ITF has escalated its support for its Nakliyat-İş union by asking the Turkish government to intervene urgently over mass worker dismissals by MEDLOG Logistics Shipping Tourism Inc.

Brazil’s civil aviation workers demonstrated on 21 September to make airline companies end overwork and low salaries, and stem the replacement of skilled aircraft mechanics and other workers with unskilled personnel.

A four day event in Yangon, Myanmar, has closed after examining the opportunities for action and progress offered by the nation’s ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 – and receiving a positive reaction from the authorities there.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation), which is assisting the crews of the Malaviya Seven and Twenty in Aberdeen and Great Yarmouth, UK, announced today that the MCA (Maritime and Coastguard Agency) has detained the Malaviya Seven at the Federation’s request.

ITF unions from across Africa have planned how they will take action to deal with the risks and opportunities for workers posed by Bus Rapid Transit (BRT).

Over 2,000 taxi drivers demonstrated in front of Argentina’s Federal Capital Criminal and Correctional Court on 28 September to demand their participation as plaintiffs in the country’s legal process against Uber.

A global union federation mission concludes today after standing alongside South Korean workers staging their largest public sector strike in 20 years. Korean unions are fighting back against government plans that would make sackings easier and muzzle trade unions.

Brazil’s seafarers have won their long-running dispute with state-owned petroleum giant Petrobras.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) today described the refusal of shore leave to seafarers on board Hanjin ships in the USA as a denial of human rights – and praised the actions of dockers in Seattle who have drawn the problem to public attention.