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Global and European bodies representing transport workers have hailed strong union and community action in defence of workers in Belgium.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation is getting set for 2015 changes in the determination of safe manning of vessels, which come as a result of new International Maritime Organization (IMO) requirements.

Trade unionists, pensioners and disabled people turned out to a victory rally on 8 December organised by Sheffield Trades Union Council, UK to celebrate the dropping of criminal public disorder charges against two of their fellow ‘freedom riders’ following a public outcry.

The ITF has welcomed the bans this week on all Uber operations in Delhi, Spain and Thailand as a further blow to mobile apps taxi services which bypass taxi service regulations, so undermining public safety and the jobs of regulated taxi drivers.

HIV positive workers and other ITF trade union members were out in force on World AIDS Day (1 December) to challenge HIV/AIDS and the stigma that surrounds it at work and in the community.

Commenting on the situation in the Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT), Sharon James, ITF dockers’ section secretary, said: “There is one clear issue for the dockworkers at Aqaba, and that relates to the change of shift patterns.

Representatives from unions across Latin America forged links and new strategies at a groundbreaking ITF summer school in Cordoba, Argentina, last week.

National recognition has been given to an online campaign calling for respect for the human and trade union rights of tuna workers in the Philippines.

12 June 1954 to 1 December 2014 The ITF is saddened by the death of Enrique Fossoul, leading Spanish trade unionist and member of the management committee of the ETF. Enrique Fossoul was one of the public faces of Comisiones Obreras, (CC.OO) – Spain’s largest trade union – including in the crucial