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Unions backing 43 dockers sacked in Madagascar are demonstrating at the country’s embassies in three continents worldwide this week – as well as sending messages of protest.

Activists from ITF civil aviation unions meet in London this week to set out their plans for the future of the industry.

The Government of Madagascar is the target of a global campaign launched today (28th February) to defend dockworkers at the ICTSI operated Port of Toamasina in Madagascar. The campaign by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) will see protests outside of Madagascan embassies across three continents. Steve Cotton, ITF General Secretary said this was the first action in an ongoing campaign to get 43 dock workers reinstated after they were sacked for being members of a union.

ITF unions from Sweden and Germany have joined together to put pressure on IKEA to take responsibility for exploitation in its European road transport supply chain.

ITF president and chair of the ITF dockers' section, Paddy Crumlin, and ITF general secretary, Steve Cotton, address the following message to the members of the International Longshoremen's Association, the ILA.

The ITF and the ETF, along with their members FSC CCOO and FESMC UGT, have today condemned the Spanish government’s refusal to be part of the negotiations in the dispute over port labour reform, as the dockworkers’ unions announce strikes from 6 March.

A scheme to build power and strength for transport unions in the ITF Asia Pacific region reached a key milestone this week.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) is pleased to announce that the 12 strong crew of the Malaviya 20 – the ship abandoned in Great Yarmouth, UK in June last year – finally began their journey home on Tuesday, complete with all the wages they were owed.

Uber drivers in Qatar and New Delhi, India taking strike action over cuts in fares which are reducing their earnings have received strong support from the ITF family.

A union awareness week in January by the ITF and the Independent Federation of Myanmar Seafarers (IFOMS) persuaded 125 seafarers to become union members for the first time.