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A large and noisy rally targeting offshore hydrocarbon corporation Chevron has taken place outside the New Zealand consulate in Perth this morning.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has thrown its support behind the ongoing campaign to boost Australia’s fuel security and protect jobs onboard the BP oil tanker British Loyalty.

International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) president Paddy Crumlin today declared Australia’s Barrow Island a Port of Convenience due to Chevron's history of union-busting efforts in the offshore oil and gas sector.

A survey released by the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) today highlights the need for continuing work on HIV/AIDS and wellbeing among seafarers.

The ITF has condemned the arrests of 12 union activists, two of them women, for participating in a national road transport strike in India on 30 April.

Nearly a quarter of independent shareholders at the National Express annual general meeting in London yesterday chose not to back the board of directors’ recommendations on a resolution calling for an independent monitoring programme at the company’s US school bus subsidiary, Durham School Services.

The general secretaries of the ITF and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) have jointly written to Ayatollah Khamenei to protest against the ongoing harassment of labour activists in Iran.

Trade union leader Nicholas Mbugua stirred up an outpouring of public support for Agility workers when he addressed a crowd of over 1,000 and national and local government leaders and representatives at the May Day rally in Mombasa.

The ITF is helping two informal sector union officials who were wrongfully arrested and detained in Nairobi, Kenya.