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A report of a survey into women seafarers’ health revealed that joint pain and stress were the two biggest health challenges for women seafarers, over 40 representatives from maritime welfare and union organisations heard at a high-level briefing on 17 September.

Addressing 1,600 participants at ver.di’s congress in Leipzig on 22 September, ITF general secretary Steve Cotton urged affiliates and global federations to work together in a concerted bid to tackle today’s challenges facing transport workers.

A delegation of top trade unionists met Palestinian government ministers and senior PLO officials and were warmly welcomed by union leaders and activists in Palestine during a three-day visit last week to promote justice and workers’ rights.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) is condemning the coup by the presidential guard in Burkina Faso and backing trade unions who are launching an aviation strike tomorrow to protest against it.

Protecting the right to strike has featured heavily at the annual meeting of the British national trade union centre, the TUC.

A key group of transport unions meeting in Brussels on Wednesday determined to address worsening working conditions with a new campaign initiative, “Fair Transport Europe,” actively supported by ETF affiliates from the 28 European Member States.

A masked and gagged cabin crew member protested outside a global airline show in London this week ahead of an address by a Qatar Airways executive.

Around 250 participants, including representatives from the ITF and its affiliates, gathered in Paris for the ITUC's (International Trade Union Confederation) trade union climate summit to discuss their demands for COP21 and explore issues such as industrial transformation, just transition and building a strong climate movement.

An ITF report exposing tax avoidance by oil giant Chevron was one of the centerpieces of a special global labour tax summit held at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva today.