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The first woman train driver in the Arab World and Africa, according to her trade union the UMT, has hit the age of 50 at which all Morocco’s train drivers have to retire.

The ITF sent a message of support to a protest by dockworkers and lorry drivers on 13 January over their demands that Peel Ports provides basic toilet, shower and catering facilities at Liverpool Port’s Seaforth container dock.

ITF unions around the world are helping informal transport workers realise their power, according to the newly-published evaluation report of the ITF’s informal workers’ project and a video by the ITF and the Global Labour Institute.

The ITF (International Transport Workers is giving a warm welcome to the major new Maritime Labour Convention provisions on crew abandonment that come into force tomorrow.

An ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) inspector has issued a last ditch call to a ship owner and its flag state to act to stop the suffering of a 17-strong crew abandoned in Algeria.

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ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) leaders have spoken out in support of mass union actions later today in Canada to protect maritime workers’ jobs and skills.

Norway’s OSM Aviation and the ITF have signed a memorandum of understanding which recognises the rights of employees to organise and lays the foundation for genuine representation and collective bargaining rights to raise standards and working conditions.