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ITF and affiliated maritime union inspection teams in Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine inspected around 120 vessels in some 30 ports, spoke to several thousand seafarers and recovered unpaid wages during a four-day action to expose substandard working conditions and fight for

Inland Navigation workers in Bangladesh are celebrating the signing of a tripartite agreement on 11 January which brings to an end their three-day strike.

The annual conference of IFATCA (the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations) in Indonesia at the end of April brought the ITF and IFATCA together to build on their 2007 memorandum and strengthen future working. The ITF was represented by general secretary David Cockroft

With the death toll rising daily in Gaza the ITF today called for an immediate ceasefire and launched an urgent humanitarian appeal for those affected.

The ITF and its affiliate the Seafarers' Union of Turkey (TDS) organised a one-day MLC seminar in Istanbul on 7 May to raise awareness of the implications for Turkey of the imminent entry into force of the MLC, 2006. The event attracted some 150 participants, primarily from the shipping community

ITF affiliate Turkish Civil Aviation Unions (Hava-İş) began an indefinite strike on 15 May against Turkish Airlines (THY) over the company’s alleged failure to accept any of its proposals regarding collective bargaining and its refusal to reinstate 305 sacked workers. The strikers urged THY’s

ITF-affiliated unions around the world are showing support for their colleagues in the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) in what could be a major labour showdown in the Pacific Northwest of the USA. Multinational grain companies, who are currently making record profits, have

The UK saw its biggest strike this century yesterday, Thursday 10 July, as public sector workers joined together to demand better conditions.

Some 160 representatives from 11 maritime unions in 10 countries met in Sydney, Australia in a conference designed to set the union agenda on global port automation. Delegates at the conference on 29-30 April set an ambitious strategy anchored on a clear principle - that maritime workers accept

The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and ITF have written to the Greek ambassador to Belgium and the Greek ministers of justice and transport to urge Greece to re-open the Helios Airways accident investigation following new evidence. All 121 people on board were killed when Helios