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Port workers in Panama celebrated a freedom of association victory on 29 September as their chosen union, ITF affiliate SITREBALCRI, began collective negotiations with the Panama Ports Company (PPC).

The ITF has produced a new education module to help its affiliates organise around the growing trend of flags of convenience (FOCs) in aviation.

Around 400 people protested on 26 September in Ottawa against the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), as officials met in the city to announce they had concluded the trade negotiations.

The ITF has welcomed the latest evidence – the decision by Kuwait City to exclude Veolia from a multi-million dollar solid waste management contract – that vociferous Palestinian and international campaigning over Veolia’s complicity in Israeli projects which violate international law is hurting the company.

Two hundred wheelchairs, 200 adult and paediatric walkers and 3,000 school bags with student kits were included in the delivery to Gaza on 29 September of the third ITF shipment of humanitarian aid.

Over 1,000 London taxi drivers took part in a demonstration on 24 September to protest against the London mayor’s failure to protect the iconic black cab from unregulated competition.

An estimated 500,000 rail workers in India took part in a country-wide protest against government privatisation plans on 19 September.