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Global union the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and German union ver.di have condemned the victimisation of a Stuttgart Airport worker caught up in a row created by TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson.

A new report released today reveals that massive political spending by Chevron - the state of California’s largest polluter - seeks to stunt environmental protection, gouge consumers and reduces funds available for schools and other essential public services.

A new film designed as an education tool for seafarers on the prevention of HIV/AIDS has been launched in the Philippines this week.

A high-level delegation of global union leaders joined demonstrations in South Korea on 12 November to protest against the government’s brutal crackdown on democratic rights and criminalisation of trade union activity.

In a historic move, Jane B Sæthre has been unanimously elected the first woman president of ITF union the Norwegian Railway Association in its 124 years.

The ITF has produced an air quality factsheet to strengthen aviation unions’ efforts to combat air pollution at airports, which is a serious and overlooked work-related threat.

A high-level delegation of global union leaders is joining demonstrations taking place tomorrow in South Korea to protest against the brutal crackdown on democratic rights and the criminalisation of trade union activity by the government of President Park Geun-hye They will also back calls for the resignation of President Park, who is enmeshed in a huge corruption scandal.

Former ITF general secretary Harold Lewis remembers Jack Otero. Jack (Joaquin Francisco) Otero, died on 9 November, 2016, aged 83. For some thirty years he played an active and influential role in the ITF: first, in 1961, as its representative in Brazil, then, from 1964 to 1967 as director of the

Global unions the ITF and Public Services International have joined with Korean unions in filing a complaint against the Korean government at the International Labour Organization (ILO).

The ITF has warmly welcomed the news that Guy Ryder has been re-elected as ILO (International Labour Organization) director-general for a further five years.