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Airport workers will unite across borders tomorrow, 1 June, to deliver the message that while airlines and airports are getting richer their workers are being paid less, worked more, and having their job security torn away. Workers will be flying banners and leafleting in over 30 airports around the world to deliver their message – supported by a new research report – to the public and to the members of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), whose AGM begins tomorrow.

Maritime and oil and gas unions affiliated to global federations IndustriAll and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) met in Aberdeen 19-20 May 2016 to begin development of an industrial and political strategy to challenge the replacement of quality jobs with cheap labour by employers in the North Sea. The group represents workers from Denmark, Norway and UK.

Airports United, a new international network of trade unions representing workers in the aviation and airport industries, will hold a launch press conference on Thursday 2 June to coincide with the IATA (International Air Transport Association) AGM in Dublin, Ireland. You are invited to attend.

A judge in the Netherlands has ordered transport company Farm Trans to pay its Polish sub-contracted truck drivers the same wage as local drivers, after a vigorous campaign for justice by ITF union the FNV.

Airports United, a new group, will hold a launch press conference next Thursday 2 June to coincide with the IATA (International Air Transport Association) AGM in Dublin, Ireland. You are invited to attend.

ITF Arab World regional secretary Bilal Malkawi made the following statement: “We join the families and friends mourning the loss of passengers and crew. Their grief is profound and deeply moving. Like them, we are saddened by this tragic loss of lives. Like them we hope for answers to the cause of the crash.

The ITF is calling on the Mexico City government to step in to end anti-union activity by the state-owned Electric Transport Service (STEDF).

Brazilian seafarers have decided to suspend their strike action at oil carrier Transpetro while they vote over the next 15 days on a possible agreement worked out at conciliatory hearings at the country’s Superior Labour Court.

National Express agreed on 11 May to meet with the ITF and four of its unions following a letter they sent to the chairman and the group chief executive a week earlier expressing their concerns over the company’s behaviour.

Brazilian seafarers have decided to suspend their strike action while they vote on a possible agreement worked out at conciliatory hearings at the country’s Superior Labour Court.