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The International Labour Organization (ILO) has made progress in improving arrangements for shore leave for seafarers. At a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, employers, trade unions and governments agreed a common approach to improving ILO Convention 185, which covers identity documents for seafarers, enabling access to shore leave.

ITF-affiliated union BTB has taken action in its ongoing efforts to confront app-based taxi system Uber over protecting standards for drivers and passengers.

The ITF air quality working group will hold its inaugural meeting at ITF House in London on 27 February to review proposals to address the problem of contaminated air on commercial aircraft and at airports.

Global union federations and their affiliated unions around the world today mounted an intensive campaign to defend the unalienable right to strike, which is under attack from employer groups at the ILO (International Labour Organization).

The ITF participated in a seminar in Bangkok to support the fight of its rail affiliate in Thailand against the latest government plans for privatisation of the industry.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is supporting its affiliate Unite as it calls on London’s bus operators to enter into talks at the concilliation service Acas.

While inequality is rising, employers’ groups around the world are trying to undermine the right to strike at national and international level.

The ITF is urging unions to demonstrate their solidarity with persecuted air traffic controllers in the Dominican Republic after its regional secretary was arrested on 9 February just hours before he was due to give a joint press conference with the national trade union centre CNTD.

The ITF is urging unions to demonstrate their solidarity with persecuted air traffic controllers in the Dominican Republic after its regional secretary was arrested on 9 February just hours before he was due to give a joint press conference with the national trade union centre CNTD.

A new project from the International Seafarers’ Welfare Assistance Network (ISWAN) aims to encourage the formation of port welfare boards around the world to provide a welcome to visiting seafarers. The project, which is sponsored by the ITF Seafarers’ Trust, is being managed by the UK-based Merchant Navy Welfare Board (MNWB), which has launched a website explaining the role of welfare boards – an integral part of the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC).