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DP-DHL (Deutsche Post DHL Group), the ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation) and UNI Global Union have jointly asked the German National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises to extend a protocol to continue regular dialogue on industrial relations topics. The protocol was first signed in July 2016 by the German NCP.

Less talk and more action was the general consensus from ITF young transport workers making up the newly formed youth congress group. Chaired by Baker Khundakji, ITF youth coordinator, they met for the first time last week in Singapore, the location of ITF congress 2018.

The ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation) is assisting the crew of the vessel C Star, who have been abandoned unpaid in Barcelona by its charterers, the rightwing youth group Defend Europe. The ship was at the centre of the group’s comic opera efforts to block vessels rescuing refugees and migrants from sinking boats in the Mediterranean.

The ITF was joined today by the ITUC and fellow global trade union organisations in asking for urgent ILO (International Labour Organization) action over widespread cases of brutality against trade unionists and workers in Iran.

The ITF has been involved in an investigation by the BBC into European truck drivers who are being pressured into tampering with the equipment that records their driving time.

Senior ITF and Ukraine transport union representatives have agreed to work together to build union power in the region.

Young transport workers from ITF unions in Africa have learnt how to build a network of activists and young leaders to play a powerful role in campaigning and organising.

The Somalia Congress of Trade Unions (SOCOTU) has approached the ITF Africa regional office to seek affiliation to the federation of its three transport unions.

Commitment to protection of maritime cabotage and the value of union provided training for seafarers are both being highlighted at the Seafarers’ International Union of North America (SIU) convention this week.