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The ITF today applauded port state control in Canada and Denmark for their action in detaining two vessels under the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) – and pointed out how the detentions prove the new convention’s potential. In Canada the Lia M was detained, and in Denmark the Atlantic Carrier

The ITF and its Turkish affiliate Hava-Is have lodged a complaint with the ILO against both the Turkish government and Turkish Airlines, the national flag carrier. The complaint is against the government in relation to the conduct of Turkish Airlines that led to the dismissal of 305 workers in May

The ITF this week called on affiliates to join workers around the world and demand good jobs at Walmart companies and along the Walmart supply chain. The global action week, coordinated by ITF’s sister global union federation UNI Global Union, runs from 18-24 November. Walmart workers come together

Road transport workers from across West Africa recently came together in Cotonou, Benin to discuss common challenges and develop a strategy for change. From 8-10 April the first implementation seminar for the ITF/SASK road transport corridors project for 2013-2015 brought together representatives

The ITF has written to the Romanian transport minister to express its concern over the failure of negotiations to conclude a new collective agreement between the Metrorex management and its affiliate the Free Trade Union of Metro and Aviation Workers (USLMA). The current collective labour agreement

The ITF is calling on governments and industry bodies to back a proposed amendment that will tackle the dangers posed by unweighed or mis-declared shipping containers. The amendment – to the existing Safety of Life at Sea Convention (SOLAS) – will be tabled at a meeting of the IMO (International

The ITF Seafarers Trust and the Maritime Piracy Humanitarian Response Programme (MPHRP) hosted a packed press screening of the film A Hijacking, which they describe as possibly “the first genuinely realistic portrayal of the sheer horror and brutality inflicted on the victims of pirate attacks”. The

The ITF has called for the democratic electoral processes in Venezuela to be respected, following the ‘welcome’ election on 14 April of Nicholas Maduro Moros, former leader of the ITF affiliated SITRAMECA trade union. The ITF commented that Maduro had already demonstrated his respect for workers’

The Railway and Transport Union (EVG) in Germany announced a successful outcome to the 2013 wage negotiations with Deutsche Bahn AG on 25 March. The collective agreement, described as “respectable” by EVG deputy chair Regina Rusch-Ziemba, could give a wage increase of six per cent overall and a

Members of the press are invited to attend the public handing over of a letter of protest next Thursday 26 September at the headquarters of Swiss-based offshore pipeline installation and subsea construction company Allseas Group SA. The event will feature a trade union delegation from several