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Global union bodies the ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation) and ITF (International Transport Workers) have swung into action to support a Korean trade union facing state victimisation. Both bodies are mobilising their global networks of affiliated unions to protest to the Korean government following a raid by 200 police officers against the Korean Public Service and Transport Workers' Union (KPTU), and the brutal arrests of seven union members.

Bus drivers, engineers and technicians employed by Cardiff City Transport Ltd have won their battle for fair pay after four days of strike action, and have warmly thanked the ITF affiliates who supported them.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has urged multi-billion dollar American corporation Alcoa to reassess its decision to sack Australian seafarers engaged in coastal trade.

The ITF has demanded immediate action to protect trade unionists in Libya after the attempted murder of a prominent activist.

ITF general secretary Steve Cotton met with union leaders and activists across the transport sectors in Tunisia and Morocco to demonstrate support for the development of the affiliates, which has come as a result of the region having the fastest union membership increases.

Over 100 global delivery workers and union activists meeting in Nyon, Switzerland have united to condemn a knife attack on a DHL courier in India and union repression in Korea.

Unions battling government plans to privatise one of the biggest companies operating in the railways, inland navigation and ports in the Democratic Republic of Congo today received the backing of the ITF.

The president of the ITF-affiliated BTS union in Turkey – who was injured in the suicide bombings in Ankara on 10 October – has condemned the Turkish state in a searing message to the ITF, in which he calls for justice.

A member of the ITF executive board has been voted president of Singapore’s National Trades Union Congress (NTUC). Mary Liew, the first woman to be general secretary of the Singapore Maritime Officers' Union (SMOU), a former nominated member of parliament, and the ITF’s first-ever woman Asia-Pacific executive board representative, has just been elected to the prestigious post.