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ITF dockers’ unions have launched collective action this week in support of imprisoned Russian trade union leader Leonid Tikhonov.

New ITF general secretary Steve Cotton is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland for the first time, one of a spearhead of union leaders ensuring that workers' rights and issues cannot be ignored.

Teams of ITF inspectors, along with dockers’ and seafarers’ union members, will begin the first East Asian maritime action week of 2015 on Monday across ports in Japan, Korea, Russia and Taiwan. The action week will run from 26 to 30 January.

A major union representing DHL workers has infuriated the company’s management by staging a protest at the DHL-sponsored Mumbai Marathon on 18 January.

More than 30,000 dockers across India staged mass protests – ‘dharana’ – in all 12 major ports as part of a national day of action on 8 January against government corporatisation plans, organised by the five major dock workers’ union federations.

Taxi workers came together in New York on 15-16 January to discuss their fight against Uber and other aggressive ‘ride share’ operators, who were “gutting driver rights and consumer protections”.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) today called for all-party talks on the future of the port of Rotterdam, as dockers refused to unload a ship loaded at the new Rotterdam Gateway (RWG) terminal. RWG, unlike other companies at the port, refuses to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement with port workers, who are represented by the FNV Havens union.

Kenyan unions that represent informal minivan (matatu) and bus transport workers participated in a three-day seminar this week which was organised by the ITF in conjunction with the Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu), a major Kenyan national centre.

Icelandair pilots have voted overwhelmingly for an agreement negotiated with the company by their union, the Icelandic Airline Pilots Association (FIA), which brings to an end a bitter dispute.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation is giving all possible backing to its American member union, The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), which has filed for a union representation election for flight attendants at Delta Air Lines.