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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.

An International Transport Workers Federation delegation to Ambon Island in the Maluku province of Indonesia has today received evidence from 70 Myanmar fishers that may amount to them being victims of human trafficking.

The ITF has warned the Australian government of an international trade union response to the ruling by the Fair Work Commission that the country’s largest rail freight operator could terminate 12 enterprise bargaining agreements, covering over 6,000 workers.

Remember the dead, fight like hell for the living. That’s the slogan for International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD) and it was taken to heart by ITF unions this week when they took action around toxic gases and fumigation in containers.

The National Union of Seafarers Sri Lanka (NUSS) has brokered a pioneering HIV non-discrimination deal in an agreement signed with Mercantile Marine Management Ltd.