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The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation) have given a guarded welcome to the news that Iranian trade unionists Davood Razavi and Ebrahim Madadi have been released on bail. The men had been imprisoned earlier this month.

The ITF and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) have urged the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to implement its ombudsman’s compliance recommendations on labour and working conditions at Avianca Airlines, Colombia.

As the dockers’ strike at Callao port in Peru reached its seventh day, unions called on the ITF and Peruvian authorities to intervene over allegations that APM Terminals was acting illegally and disregarding the risks to health by using seafarers to assist with unloading containers.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) has criticised moves by the conservative Australian government to deregulate its shipping industry and place at risk thousands of domestic jobs in the maritime sector.

The ITUC and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) call on the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private-sector lending arm, to implement the recommendations issued today by IFC’s Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) to improve compliance procedures for IFC Performance Standard 2 on labour and working conditions.

Members of the ITF’s fair practices committee (FPC) and steering group met this week in Perth, Australia, to boost campaigns by Australian and New Zealand affiliates to demand action over worker and union rights by offshore oil and gas giants Chevron and BP.

ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) president and chair of its dockers’ section, Paddy Crumlin, has expressed the organisation’s condolences over the death of a docker in Bremerhaven, Germany.

A new and comprehensive survey by the ITF has shown the need for continuing work to address HIV/AIDS and wellbeing among seafarers.