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A week-long city bus strike in Phoenix, Arizona in the United States ended on 15 January when the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1433 approved a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with French multinational Transdev Services Inc.

ITF inspectors, along with dockers’ and seafarers’ union members, will check pay and working conditions on board vessels as part of the first East Asian maritime action week of 2016. The action week will be held from 25 to 29 January across ports in Japan, Korea, Russia and Taiwan.

The ITF has condemned the terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on 15 January, in which an activist in its civil aviation affiliate union the FSTAB (Fédération des Syndicats des Travailleurs et Auxiliaires du Transport du Burkina) and 28 other people were killed.

The ITF has united with its affiliate the Thai Airways International Union (TG Union) and the State Enterprise Workers Relations Confederation (SERC) to bring a complaint to the International Labour Organization (ILO) about the government of Thailand’s failure to protect workers’ rights.

The joint chairs of the ITF’s young transport workers’ committee have congratulated the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) on being awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize.

The ITF is calling on the president of Morocco to intervene in an ongoing dispute at the Port of Casablanca.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) has again questioned the behaviour of Alcoa as apparent non-payment of wages on one of the vessels it uses has been detected just a day after the MV Portland was spirited away from its Australian port (see http://goo.gl/CCXqWg)

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) today strongly condemned the raid early this morning (Wednesday) on the MV Portland in the Australian home port for which it is named. Up to 30 security guards were reportedly used to eject the five Australian crew members from the vessel and usher on a non-national crew, which then set sail for Singapore.

31 July 1923 to 12 January 2016 The ITF is saddened by the death of Democrito T. Mendoza, one of the Philippines’ leading trade unionists. Democrito Mendoza was one of the founders of the Associated Labor Unions (ALU) in 1954 and its national president, before becoming chair in 2012. He was one of

Hundreds of dockers in the Port of Rottterdam were out on strike for 24 hours this week in a bid to protect jobs.