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The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has described Thailand as being ‘on trial’ for allowing a company to prosecute a human rights defender who exposed modern day slavery in its canned fruit and fishing industry. The ITF is demanding that charges against Andy Hall, a UK citizen who

WHAT: Dockers’ union representatives from across the globe will gather in Sydney, Australia for a two-day strategy conference on April 29 and 30 April to discuss automation — past, present and future. At the end of the conference (which is closed to the press) three key personnel will be available

The ITF has welcomed the extension of contract negotiations in the US East Coast ports. Talks are set to continue until 6th February 2013 following agreement between the parties, see: http://www.ilaunion.org/news_Positive_Agreement.html "This is a real opportunity for progress, which ITF affiliates

As Malta became the 34th International Labour Organization member state to ratify the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) 2006 on 23 January, the ITF has cautiously approved the progress made across the shipping world to prepare for the convention’s all-important coming into force in August. The ITF

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), representing around 700 unions with over 4.5 million members in some 150 countries, today called for the democratic electoral processes in Venezuela to be respected. The ITF welcomed the election on 14 April of Nicolás Maduro Moros, former

The first meeting of a new network of women in Egypt’s transport unions took place last month. Twenty-five women representatives from the civil aviation, public transport and maritime transport sectors attended. They elected a board of directors comprising 11 women and agreed that the main objective

The ITF and its member unions from the civil aviation sector will be upholding safety and decent working conditions at a crucial ILO (International Labour Organization) meeting opening in Geneva today. The three day event – known as a global dialogue forum (GDF) – has been called to tackle the

Rail union RMT announced on 1 February that in a ballot of staff working for London Underground’s Trainpeople agency contract, members have voted unanimously for strike action. The ballot resulted from the termination of a deal that will make dozens of staff unemployed in spite of Agency Worker

The ITF has welcomed the provisional five day release of sick Iranian prisoner Reza Shahabi, treasurer of the ITF’s affiliate the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company.
 
Following a three-week protest hunger strike, Shahabi was released yesterday on the grounds of his deteriorating

The ITF has condemned as ‘utterly unbelievable’ a totally unexpected decision by a court in Morocco to jail trade union leaders Said Elhairech and Mohamed Chamchati.Elhairech the general secretary of the Moroccan Ports Union, part of the ITF-affiliated UMT, and chair of the ITF Arab World regional