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Three ITF affiliates have joined the federation in praising the actions of firefighters and the crew on board British Airways flight 2276 in evacuating 172 people when the plane caught fire before take-off this morning at Las Vegas airport.

ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) maritime coordinator Jacqueline Smith will reveal the organisation’s experience of the Maritime Labour Convention’s second year in operation, in a speech at the International Shipping Conference tonight in London.

A global conference looking at the issues, implications and next steps around the workers’ capital agenda is being hosted by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) this week.

Transport unions representing workers of the Northern Corridor – which links East Africa Community (EAC) countries – have met in Kampala, Uganda to discuss violations of human and trade union rights in the region.

Truck drivers at Agility in Kenya are awaiting a court decision following three judicial hearings into the situation at the company.

ITF general secretary Steve Cotton today urged Ukraine to ratify MLC 2006 and ILO convention 185 on seafarers' identity documents, and praised the work of the Marine Transport Workers of Ukraine (MTWTU) as it celebrated 110 years of the union movement in maritime transport.

In order to protect passengers from illegal transport operators and to safeguard the employment of thousands of taxi drivers, the municipality of Rio de Janeiro on 15 August approved a bill banning Uber from operating in the city.

Urban transport unions from the Arab World gathered in Cairo to discuss climate change for the first time and develop action plans, in the face of rising temperatures, more frequent dust storms and increased risk of rises in sea level in the region.

A global campaign is being launched in support of Maciek Konopka and his colleagues at Deepwater Container Terminal (DCT) Gdansk as union-busting activity by management reaches new heights.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) is celebrating the first victory for staff rights at Qatar Airways (QR) after the airline admitted that it has removed its contractual pregnancy and marriage prohibitions. These demanded that anyone becoming pregnant had to notify management, at which point she would be likely to lose her job, and forbade marriage for five years (even after that time permission had to be sought to marry).