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The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) today congratulated Barcelona football club for considering dropping its lucrative sponsorship deal with Qatar Airways, over what club president Josep Maria Bartomeu described as “social issues”.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) today congratulated Barcelona football club for considering dropping its lucrative sponsorship deal with Qatar Airways, over what club president Josep Maria Bartomeu described as “social issues”.

Dockers at the south bank of Dublin Port, Ireland, have won a deal to reclaim their jobs, bringing to an end their long-running dispute with cement company Ecocem, thanks to support from SIPTU (Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union), the ITF and the solidarity of local truck drivers.

The ITF is reiterating the need for stringent health and safety measures in ports after an operator in New Zealand was found responsible for a dockers’ death.

ITF dockers’ unions have launched collective action this week in support of imprisoned Russian trade union leader Leonid Tikhonov.

New ITF general secretary Steve Cotton is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland for the first time, one of a spearhead of union leaders ensuring that workers' rights and issues cannot be ignored.

Teams of ITF inspectors, along with dockers’ and seafarers’ union members, will begin the first East Asian maritime action week of 2015 on Monday across ports in Japan, Korea, Russia and Taiwan. The action week will run from 26 to 30 January.

A major union representing DHL workers has infuriated the company’s management by staging a protest at the DHL-sponsored Mumbai Marathon on 18 January.

More than 30,000 dockers across India staged mass protests – ‘dharana’ – in all 12 major ports as part of a national day of action on 8 January against government corporatisation plans, organised by the five major dock workers’ union federations.