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A high-level delegation of global union leaders joined demonstrations in South Korea on 12 November to protest against the government’s brutal crackdown on democratic rights and criminalisation of trade union activity.

In a historic move, Jane B Sæthre has been unanimously elected the first woman president of ITF union the Norwegian Railway Association in its 124 years.

The ITF has produced an air quality factsheet to strengthen aviation unions’ efforts to combat air pollution at airports, which is a serious and overlooked work-related threat.

A high-level delegation of global union leaders is joining demonstrations taking place tomorrow in South Korea to protest against the brutal crackdown on democratic rights and the criminalisation of trade union activity by the government of President Park Geun-hye They will also back calls for the resignation of President Park, who is enmeshed in a huge corruption scandal.

Former ITF general secretary Harold Lewis remembers Jack Otero. Jack (Joaquin Francisco) Otero, died on 9 November, 2016, aged 83. For some thirty years he played an active and influential role in the ITF: first, in 1961, as its representative in Brazil, then, from 1964 to 1967 as director of the

Global unions the ITF and Public Services International have joined with Korean unions in filing a complaint against the Korean government at the International Labour Organization (ILO).

The ITF has warmly welcomed the news that Guy Ryder has been re-elected as ILO (International Labour Organization) director-general for a further five years.

Victorious Norwegian train drivers returned to work on 31 October after a four-week strike when the government agreed to joint union and employer demands for a national standard for all train drivers.

The ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation) and ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) have welcomed the latest ruling that Uber drivers in the UK are workers rather than self-employed freelances and deserve to receive basic workers’ rights: a guaranteed minimum wage, breaks, holiday pay and whistleblower protection.