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Representatives of designated ITF centres of excellence in the Asia Pacific region met last week to set a strategy for building union power in the area. The one-day event attracted union participants from Australia, Hong Kong, India and Japan.

“What we’ve done this week is take ownership of our communications and our part in union campaigning, and because we own it we take pride in it.”

Millions of workers in the fishing sector are set to see improved working conditions, thanks to the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) convention 188, which will enter into force on 16 November 2017.

Global union the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and German union ver.di have condemned the victimisation of a Stuttgart Airport worker caught up in a row created by TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson.

A new report released today reveals that massive political spending by Chevron - the state of California’s largest polluter - seeks to stunt environmental protection, gouge consumers and reduces funds available for schools and other essential public services.

A new film designed as an education tool for seafarers on the prevention of HIV/AIDS has been launched in the Philippines this week.

A high-level delegation of global union leaders joined demonstrations in South Korea on 12 November to protest against the government’s brutal crackdown on democratic rights and criminalisation of trade union activity.

In a historic move, Jane B Sæthre has been unanimously elected the first woman president of ITF union the Norwegian Railway Association in its 124 years.

The ITF has produced an air quality factsheet to strengthen aviation unions’ efforts to combat air pollution at airports, which is a serious and overlooked work-related threat.

A high-level delegation of global union leaders is joining demonstrations taking place tomorrow in South Korea to protest against the brutal crackdown on democratic rights and the criminalisation of trade union activity by the government of President Park Geun-hye They will also back calls for the resignation of President Park, who is enmeshed in a huge corruption scandal.