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A group of young transport workers representing the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) have spent last week on an international mission to Palestine. The visit was part of a commitment from the ITF to building industrial solidarity and effective responses to the challenges faced by transport workers in the region.

A youth mission including transport workers from South Africa, UK, Australia and Canada has just returned from Palestine. The group were representing ITF unions SATAWU, Unite the Union, MUA and Unifor.

Eighteen sacked workers at the Solomon Islands Ports Authority (SIPA) have been reinstated after the Workers' Union of the Solomon Islands (WUSI) and the ITF intervened.

Brazilian seafarers are ready to begin industrial action this Saturday, 14 May, in a dispute over discriminatory practices that potentially undermine the national flag identity of its offshore and cabotage fleet.

Workers from several companies at the port of Buenaventura, Colombia have united to take action because of concerns over safety and working conditions there, with the support of the ITF.

Young transport workers representing ITF unions from four countries will visit the Irtah border crossing between Palestine and Israel next week to support the ITF truck drivers project based there.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) is reiterating its case regarding the possible risks to safety posed by the Panama Canal’s new locks.

The ITF has asked the prime minister of the Solomon Islands to intervene immediately over the ‘extraordinary’ recent anti-worker and anti-union actions of the chief executive of the Solomon Islands Ports Authority (SIPA).

An ITF truck drivers’ union has successfully fought for the Kenyan and South Sudan governments to respond to its concerns over its members’ security, following the murders of 10 Kenyan truck drivers in two incidents in South Sudan in March.

Speaking on Workers’ Memorial Day, ITF president Paddy Crumlin said: “Workers and their unions come together today not just to remember the injured and dead but also to fight for the living. That fight is renewed every working day, and will be until every workplace is a safe one, and every worker who sets out for work makes it home at the end of the day.”