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The ITF and its union Alianza de Tranviarios de México (ATM) made a passionate plea for Mexico City not to abandon the sustainable system of trolleybuses as it seeks changes to the city’s transport systems.

Hundreds of dockworkers from ETF and ITF-affiliated unions will demonstrate tomorrow in front of the offices of Northern European logistics company Unifeeder in Aarhus, Denmark for allowing seafarers to lash and unlash their charted vessels. This is in direct contravention of the ITF dockers’ clause which specifically reserves lashing and unlashing work for dockers.

Next Monday 5 December trade union representatives and leaders from 42 countries worldwide will join a rally in central Brussels against the European Union’s proposed fourth railway package.

Trade union delegates representing transport workers from across the Asia Pacific region will meet in Tokyo, Japan this week for their regional International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) conference. The event runs from 28-30 November.

The ITF Asia Pacific regional conference kicks off on Monday. More than 250 delegates from across the region will meet in Tokyo, Japan from 28-30 November for one of the first ITF Pathway to Congress events.

Hundreds of dockworkers from ITF and ETF-affiliated unions will descend on the offices of Northern European logistics company Unifeeder in Aarhus, Denmark on Friday 2 December, to continue the next stage of the ITF/ETF European Lashing Campaign. The campaign is spearhead by Danish union 3F.

ITF union the SNTT (Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de Rama, Servicios de la Industria del Transporte y Logística de Colombia) has negotiated the first collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with major transport company Transcaribe in Cartagena, as part of an ongoing project in Colombia supported by the ITF.

The ITF has raised concerns over the treatment by Aras Cargo in Turkey of employees who are members of the ITF union Tümtis.

Members of ITF union ver.di have warmly welcomed the letter sent by the ITF and its European arm the ETF to Lufthansa Technik (LHT) urging the company to engage in meaningful negotiations with the union.

The ITF and its dockers’ unions have been putting their proposals for safe working environments for dockworkers to the ILO (International Labour Organization).