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Analysis carried out by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) released today has found an emerging pattern of labour rights violations throughout one of the world's most profitable stevedoring companies: International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI).

Analysis carried out by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) released today has found an emerging pattern of labour rights violations throughout one of the world's fastest growing stevedoring companies: International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI).

The ITF today launched an appeal with LabourStart to protect dockworkers in Indonesia.

DP-DHL (Deutsche Post DHL Group), the ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation) and UNI Global Union have jointly asked the German National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises to extend a protocol to continue regular dialogue on industrial relations topics.

DP-DHL (Deutsche Post DHL Group), the ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation) and UNI Global Union have jointly asked the German National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises to extend a protocol to continue regular dialogue on industrial relations topics. The protocol was first signed in July 2016 by the German NCP.

Less talk and more action was the general consensus from ITF young transport workers making up the newly formed youth congress group. Chaired by Baker Khundakji, ITF youth coordinator, they met for the first time last week in Singapore, the location of ITF congress 2018.

The ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation) is assisting the crew of the vessel C Star, who have been abandoned unpaid in Barcelona by its charterers, the rightwing youth group Defend Europe. The ship was at the centre of the group’s comic opera efforts to block vessels rescuing refugees and migrants from sinking boats in the Mediterranean.

The ITF was joined today by the ITUC and fellow global trade union organisations in asking for urgent ILO (International Labour Organization) action over widespread cases of brutality against trade unionists and workers in Iran.

The ITF has been involved in an investigation by the BBC into European truck drivers who are being pressured into tampering with the equipment that records their driving time.