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Sixty seven inspections in one week in designated ports in Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Philippines led to notices of warnings being issued to errant companies and unpaid wage claims. This latest ITF campaign to protect conditions for seafarers working on vessels in South East Asia resulted in

Port unions in terminals which are operated by global network terminal operator (GNT) DP World are getting ready to stage activities as part of a DPW global day of action. ITF dockers’ union representatives resolved during a meeting in Chicago in July 2013 to organise the action day as part of a

The ITF road and rail action week 2013 begins on Monday. Combining the annual road action weeks and rail action days in one event running from 7 to 13 October, it is designed to give workers and their unions the chance to take local issues to national governments and an international audience. Its

The ETF and several of its affiliates joined two other European union federations and the ETUC to urge the eradication of discrimination and abuses of social rights among posted workers. Some 4,000 workers and activists held a rally outside the European Commission building in Brussels on 23 January

A LabourStart fundraising event organised through Facebook in London on 4 May to celebrate International Workers Day gave the ITF an opportunity to thank the organisation for mobilising global support for trade union campaigns. Speaking at the event, held in London’s only pub to be run by a trade

ITF acting general secretary Steve Cotton last week heard directly from workers in Sweden on issues that matter to them on a short fact finding trip to the country. Visiting Arlanda Airport in Stockholm, Cotton spoke with Scandinavian airline workers and saw many aspects of daily work at a large

Global union federations the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and UNI Global Union announced last week that Turkey’s TUMTIS union has secured recognition from DHL as the lawful union of choice for DHL Turkey Supply Chain staff. The announcement that DHL will not contest TUMTIS’

The ITF today raised the case of three sacked Vahed Syndicate bus drivers directly with the Iranian government. ITF general secretary David Cockroft called for the men’s reinstatement in letters to the country’s president and labour minister, after being alerted to their dismissals by the ITF

The ITF and the ITF Seafarers’ Trust have donated a total of GBP10,000 (USD15,000) at a fundraising event for an African maritime charity where support also came in the shape of a 17-strong ITF/Seafarers’ Trust team. The event, held in London, UK, featured 76 teams of volunteers who took part in a

The ITF last week slammed ongoing trade union rights violations in Bahrain, highlighting the experience of the Bahrain Airport Service (BAS) union, a member of ITF-affiliated General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions (GFBTU). Back in 2011, thousands of BAS workers were dismissed from work