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Representatives of worldwide dockworkers’ unions meeting in London, England today pledged their support for the ILWU in the West Coast contract talks and questioned the PMA’s commitment to a fair and negotiated settlement.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) has called on the Colombian government to enforce national law and hold the Avianca airline to account over its continued use of fake ‘co-operatives’ as a way of ducking its responsibilities to employees.

Local activists and trade union representatives from around the world met in Hull, UK to launch a major international ITF and IndustriALL union supply chain programme.

The ITF has welcomed the reinstatement of leading Tunisian union activist Thouraya Krichen at the Office of Merchant Navy and Ports in the Port of La Goulette, Tunis.

ITF general secretary Steve Cotton received a prestigious award at the United Seamen's Service (USS) annual Admiral of the ocean sea (AOTOS) awards ceremony held in New York on 7 November.

The ITF has congratulated Nermin Al-Sharif, president of the ITF-affiliated Dockers’ and Seafarers’ Union of Libya, on being awarded the Mediterranean prize for peace by the Italian federation for sports and environment (Arci).

ITF seafarers’ section chair David Heindel today described the 36 year sentence handed down to Captain Lee Joon-Seok as “Excessive and unjust”.

ITF president and national secretry of the MUA Paddy Crumlin has highlighted the inaction of the government of El Salvador on the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Gilberto Soto, a representative of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

The ITF is urging its affiliates to back the solidarity campaign launched by the Confederation of Labour of Russia and the Dockers’ Union of Russia (DUR) for Leonid Tikhonov, a DUR leader who faces seven years in prison on what the union claims are false criminal charges.