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The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has launched a fresh appeal for union members to protest over continuing charges against trade unionists in Turkey. Representatives of ITF sister global and European federations, including the ITUC and the EPSU, the European arm of Public Services

The Maritime Union of Australia and thousands of its members around Australia rallied outside the offices of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) and its affiliates on 26 March to call on the business community to cease its campaign against waterfront safety reforms. ACCI has

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (Teamsters) brought its protest against National Express Group plc to the UK on 27 March to demand that the multinational honours the human rights of its North American workers. Teamster school bus drivers who work at the company in the United States

The ITF warned on 24 April that the operation of the USA’s National Airspace System is being put in danger by compulsory furloughing (involuntary leave) of Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control staff. The furloughs are taking place as part of federal ‘sequestration’ cost-cutting

ITF-affiliated unions in Central America have carried out solidarity actions at Honduran embassies in defence of the human and union rights of workers at Puerto Cortes. Since the coup d'état in Honduras in 2012, dockworkers have reported a militarisation process in the port, apparently with the aim

Road haulage and port workers in Sweden secured a new three year contract this week after staging industrial action which lasted just 45 minutes. Members of the Swedish Transport Workers’ Union (STWU) walked out at noon on Wednesday following the breakdown of negotiations with the Swedish Road

A number of key dockers’ meetings for the ITF Latin America and Caribbean region have been taking place in Lima, Peru. Day 1 saw women from ports in Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras and Callao in Peru discuss their concerns over unequal treatment by their employers. Discrimination, lack of training

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) has acted to defend a Honduran dockers’ trade union leader after armed assailants tried to batter their way into his home and kill him. The attack was made at the house in Puerto Cortés of Victor Crespo, general secretary of the Sindicato Gremial

Concerns over labour practices at its US school bus business subsidiary, Durham School Services, threaten to affect National Express’ Annual General Meeting on 9 May in London. Allegations by workers represented by the Teamsters Union over poor school bus safety, service and working conditions at

Action over wages by Hungarian rail workers represented by ITF affiliate VDSZSZ (the Free Trade Union of Railway Workers) in mid-April has led to the signing of an agreement by members of the Private Sector Consultation Forum (VKF), which consists of the government, private sector employer