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ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) general secretary Steve Cotton has spoken out to back the RMT and Unite offshore workers taking industrial action in the North Sea.

Global union leaders will attend a Seoul court next Tuesday, 26 July, to witness the treatment of Cho Sung-deok, one of several South Korean union leaders who have been put on show trials on trumped-up charges.

The ITF and Ministry of Administrative Development, Labor & Social Affairs in Qatar have released this joint statement:

After a long struggle, SNTT, the national amalgamated transport workers’ union in Colombia which represents dockers and other workers, signed a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with APM/TCBUEN container terminal at Buenaventura port on 15 July.

Seafarers can now easily access up-to-date information and guidance about HIV/AIDS on their mobile devices, thanks to a new wellbeing app launched by the ITF this week.

The ITF joined many of its UK affiliates at this year’s Tolpuddle festival in Dorset, UK on 17 July to commemorate the six farm workers who were cruelly punished when they attempted to organise in 1834.

The ITF and UNI Global Union have agreed a protocol with logistics giant DP-DHL which commits them to continued dialogue on employment and industrial relations.

The ITF, UNI and DP-DHL have today agreed to a protocol, which commits them to continued dialogue on employment and industrial relations. The parties will meet four times a year and attempt to resolve issues in a mutually acceptable manner to avoid future problems.

The ITF delivered the message that cabotage is needed to protect jobs, economies and skills to a TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) stakeholder meeting in Brussels, Belgium last week.

The ITF has commended the Seafarers International Union of Canada for its work in revealing abuses of a permit licensing system that risked undermining the nation’s cabotage laws and shipping capability.