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An international delegation of trade unionists arrives in Ecuador today to protest the unjust sacking of cabin crew member Jimena Lopez by the LAN Ecuador airline. Their four-day mission will mirror union protests worldwide for Jimena on International Women’s Day, 8 March, and include meetings with the Ecuadorian government – which is supporting the demands for her reinstatement.

The ITF has written to Malaysia’s prime minister to urge him to intervene over plans to close Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and create a new airline with only some of the workers and no unions.

Sharing of campaign ideas, the importance of tactics and having a strong strategy, new ways to organise youth committees, how to organise apathetic workers – just some of the things previous ITF summer school participants have taken away from the event.

The ITF called for dialogue and worker involvement in Kenya’s maritime industry during the country’s historic first maritime conference in its 50 years of independence.

Five Indian union federations have come together in a historic joint campaign for dockers’ jobs in the face of port corporatisation and have announced an indefinite strike in 11 major ports beginning on 9 March.

Twenty-five shop stewards participated in training to build the organising capacity of Kenyan long-distance truck drivers, which was organised by the ITF and its affiliates the Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging (FNV) and the Kenya Long Distance Truck Drivers Union (KLDTDU).

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) has submitted a deposition to the US Coast Guard’s consultation on seafarers’ access to maritime facilities – the Notice of Proposed Rule Making. The submission supports the USCG’s efforts to improve the shore leave/access situation for seafarers while upholding the nation’s security needs.

A bitter dispute between ground staff and Colombia’s national carrier Avianca finally ended on 9 January, when 130 workers who had been barred from their workplace returned to work

ITF affiliates globally are urging their governments and employers’ organisations to push for an ILO convention to stop gender-based violence at work, as part of their preparations to celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March.

Worldwide action organised by the ITF and Public Services International (PSI), in concert with other global unions, the ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation) and trade unions worldwide, has helped thwart an attempt to remove the right to strike at the International Labour Organization (ILO).