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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.

Young transport workers from across the Asia Pacific region have met for the first time as part of the ITF’s campaign to build a global young transport workers' network.

Members of a new ITF cabotage task force have agreed at their inaugural meeting steps to support national cabotage campaigns and to tackle the threat of liberalisation posed by international trade talks.

A group of airline cabin crew gathered outside the FC Barcelona members’ meeting on Sunday to ask the football giant to reject further sponsorship by Qatar Airways (QR).