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· Aviation workers in Brazil voted to strike on February 3rd · Strikes likely to continue in Argentina · Colombia is negotiating to improve conditions for workers and may join in actions supporting the Brazil and Argentina stoppages

Dockworkers will hold protests in locations across Europe over the next ten days to demonstrate their objection to the poor treatment of workers in the Port of Gdansk, Poland.

The ITF held a series of meeting 25-27 January 2016 in London with Federation of Korean Seafarers’ Union (FKSU) and Federation of Korean Maritime Seafarers’ Union (KMSU), with an aim to create reconciliatory process.

Global union body the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) has asked Bayern Munich to reconsider its new sponsorship deal with Qatar’s Doha Airport.

Road transport unions in the Ivory Coast are stepping up joint lobbying and mobilisation in order to accelerate the signing and implementation of the national collective bargaining agreement (CBA) by the end of June.

Responding to the Spanish Supreme Court’s decision to sentence Captain Mangouras to two years imprisonment over the 2002 Prestige oil spill, ITF seafarers’ section chair Dave Heindel said: “This decision represents the dying gasps of a 14 year old attempt to deflect blame onto the shoulders of an octogenarian man, who has been cleared in the court of world opinion and by his peers.

LAN and TAM Airlines workers in Argentina went on strike this week in protest over continued delays in pay negotiations. The one-day stoppage affected flights in several countries and helped publicise fellow workers’ grievances not just in Argentina but also in Brazil, Ecuador and Colombia.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) is to pay for legal support for the court appeal of the ship’s crew members of the Seaman Guard Ohio.

The management of Aviation Handling Services (AHS) in Senegal has finally cancelled all the disciplinary sanctions against workers and shop stewards from the ITF-affiliated Suttaaas after a bitter, four-month crisis.

The ‘fourth industrial revolution’ – or industry 4.0 – was the theme at this year’s World Economics Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, and prompted ITF general secretary Steve Cotton and other global union leaders to call for a just transition for workers.