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Twelve young transport workers from nine Latin American countries added their voices to calls for action as world leaders gathered in Lima, Peru for the UN climate change talks, COP20 – a prelude to world climate talks in Paris next year.

Twenty trade union leaders representing workers at LAN in South America successfully persuaded Ecuador’s Minister of Labour yesterday to ask LAN Ecuador to reinstate Ximena López, general secretary of the Airline Workers Trade Union (SITA).

ITF affiliated unions are promoting and distributing a film which highlights the dire conditions faced by seafarers in the Black Sea.

Unions from states surrounding the Black Sea are promoting a new film exposing the dire and disgraceful conditions under which many seafarers live – and die – there.

Global and European bodies representing transport workers have hailed strong union and community action in defence of workers in Belgium.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation is getting set for 2015 changes in the determination of safe manning of vessels, which come as a result of new International Maritime Organization (IMO) requirements.

Trade unionists, pensioners and disabled people turned out to a victory rally on 8 December organised by Sheffield Trades Union Council, UK to celebrate the dropping of criminal public disorder charges against two of their fellow ‘freedom riders’ following a public outcry.

The ITF has welcomed the bans this week on all Uber operations in Delhi, Spain and Thailand as a further blow to mobile apps taxi services which bypass taxi service regulations, so undermining public safety and the jobs of regulated taxi drivers.

HIV positive workers and other ITF trade union members were out in force on World AIDS Day (1 December) to challenge HIV/AIDS and the stigma that surrounds it at work and in the community.

Commenting on the situation in the Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT), Sharon James, ITF dockers’ section secretary, said: “There is one clear issue for the dockworkers at Aqaba, and that relates to the change of shift patterns.