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The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) has commissioned a study into the manoeuvring feasibility of the new Panama Canal locks.

Teams of ITF inspectors, along with dockers’ and seafarers’ union members, will check pay and working conditions on board vessels as part of the third East Asian maritime action week of 2015. This begins on Monday across ports in Japan, Korea, Russia and Taiwan and will run from 14 to 18 September.

The ITF has urged the Chilean president to step in to avoid possible industrial action on 15 September over 30-year-old pension grievances experienced by the country's civil aviation administrative workers.

This week members of the global unions Committee on Workers’ Capital (CWC) met at the ITF in London. The committee is a joint initiative of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the Trade Union Advisory Committee of the OECD (TUAC) and the Global Union Federations (GUFs).

Forty delegates from ITF-affiliated unions from Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Yemen, gathered in Tunis from on 1 to 3 September to discuss the issues and priorities in the civil aviation sector.

You are invited to attend the launch of a survey of the health and wellbeing needs of women seafarers next Thursday, 17 September.

Union leaders from Colombia’s neighbouring coutries have mobilised to show solidarity with ITF affiliated SNTT union in its historic attempt to force a vote for union recognition at DHL.

“We’re going to be picketing in front of the offices of Port of Muuga management in Tallinn calling for union recognition for dockers. We want the community-local and global-to support us!”

Twenty delegates from ITF-affiliated unions representing workers at APM Terminals in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Oman met in Aqaba, Jordan this week to agree on minimum standards for the region's terminals.