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The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) has expressed its condolences to the families and colleagues of three experienced dockworkers who died on Saturday in Antwerp, Belgium, after entering a ship’s hold to unload coal.

The ITF has sent a message urging affiliates in its global DHL network to act in support of DHL India activists and their union in their struggle against management’s anti-union and anti-worker onslaught.

Unions from LAN Airlines and TAM Airlines from seven countries expand support for striking LAN Airlines workers

Women activists have achieved a major breakthrough in the overwhelmingly male-dominated MSTKS union in India.

ITF general secretary Steve Cotton hailed a momentous and historic day for the labour movement in Myanmar when he spoke at the inaugural congress of the Independent Federation of Myanmar Seafarers (IFOMS) on 31 March.

“The experience you gain won’t stay in this room, it will be taken back and shared with your colleagues for the real, tangible benefit of workers.”

1952 to April 2015 The ITF is joining those marking the death of Paul Karras, founder of the award-winning, not-for-profit agency Hunterlink Recovery Services, who has died aged 63. Paul Karras founded and managed Hunterlink, which offers welfare and counselling to seafarers of all nationalities

The ITF is urging its affiliates to support Heroes of the Sky, a new and exciting grassroots initiative among Danish aviation workers which attracted over 3,000 Facebook likes in its first three days.

The ITF has ramped up the pressure to drop criminal charges against three air traffic controllers at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport who it says were unfairly scapegoated for the tragic accident which killed the head of oil giant Total and all crew members on 20 October 2014.