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A survey released by the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) today highlights the need for continuing work on HIV/AIDS and wellbeing among seafarers.

The ITF has condemned the arrests of 12 union activists, two of them women, for participating in a national road transport strike in India on 30 April.

Nearly a quarter of independent shareholders at the National Express annual general meeting in London yesterday chose not to back the board of directors’ recommendations on a resolution calling for an independent monitoring programme at the company’s US school bus subsidiary, Durham School Services.

The general secretaries of the ITF and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) have jointly written to Ayatollah Khamenei to protest against the ongoing harassment of labour activists in Iran.

Trade union leader Nicholas Mbugua stirred up an outpouring of public support for Agility workers when he addressed a crowd of over 1,000 and national and local government leaders and representatives at the May Day rally in Mombasa.

The ITF is helping two informal sector union officials who were wrongfully arrested and detained in Nairobi, Kenya.

An International Transport Workers Federation delegation to Ambon Island in the Maluku province of Indonesia has today received evidence from 70 Myanmar fishers that may amount to them being victims of human trafficking.

The ITF has warned the Australian government of an international trade union response to the ruling by the Fair Work Commission that the country’s largest rail freight operator could terminate 12 enterprise bargaining agreements, covering over 6,000 workers.