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We would like to wish transport workers all over the world a very happy New Year. We hope you have had a peaceful festive season and the break has been a chance for members, staff and officers to regroup, to renew commitments and to gather collective strength for the challenges that lie ahead in 2016.

It is with great sadness that the ITF has learned of the death on 22nd December of Eike Eulen, former ITF president. Eulen died in Wedel, Germany, after a long illness. Born in Berlin in 1936, Eulen soon found his way to the sea. He worked as a deck boy and then as an Able Seaman working up to first

The ITF has welcomed a historic ruling in Australia to pay minimum safe rates to truck drivers.

2015 saw some big wins for the ITF and successes in supporting new unions, despite serious attacks on the union movement around the world.

The ITF has urged its affiliates to step up their global solidarity for Korean unions facing an ongoing serious crackdown.

The Victoria branch of the Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU), Australia, has won at 14 percent wage increase from Metro Trains Melbourne and Yarra Trams after determined industrial action in August and September.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Houcine Abassi has shown his support for workers at Qatar Airways who are fighting for respect and dignity at the company.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is joining its affiliate the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), in calling for the suspension of an anti-cabotage licence granted to American aluminium corporation Alcoa.

Tunisian trade unionists awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize will highlight concerns about on-going human rights abuses at Qatar Airways before receiving their prize in Norway on Thursday, 10 December.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is among trade unions meeting at COP21 in Paris tonight to discuss the global climate crisis and the role of unions in addressing it.