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Attention: Industrial, Transport, Shipping, Labor, Foreign news desks. The Indonesian Government is coming under pressure to intervene in a major industrial dispute developing with port operator ICTSI after Australian unions protested and delivered a joint letter to the Indonesian Minister for National Development Planning Bambang Brodjonegoro in Canberra today.

ITF unions representing dockers and seafarers from around the world have set out a path to building workers' power up to the ITF 2018 congress and beyond.

Global union federation the ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation) has told Uber that the ‘standing down’ of its CEO Travis Kalanick and resignation of David Bonderman gives it a chance to radically reform its working practices.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation), which is assisting the crew of the tanker Qaaswa, marooned in Tunisia, has rebutted the owner company’s attempts to hide its ill treatment of the crew – including a farcical reported claim that the intimidated, underprovisioned and ill-treated seafarers are supposedly selling bunker fuel.

The Asociación Argentina de Aeronavegantes (AAA) has welcomed the solidarity of the ITF and Unite the Union in the UK as it fights to stop British Airways (BA) closing its Buenos Aires EZE hub and laying off cabin crew based there.

Belgian dockers from the ITF and ETF-affiliated BTB-ABVV, ACV Transcom and ACLVB unions are protesting on the dockside in Antwerp now against the arrival of the world’s second biggest container ship, the Maersk Madrid. They are mobilising in solidarity with their Spanish colleagues in the FSC-CCOO and FESMC-UGT, who are taking action against the country’s so-called port reform, after the ship had diverted from Algeciras and unloaded in Tangier.

The plight of the Malagasy 43 - dockworkers sacked in Madagascar for standing up for their rights - has reached the highest levels of the Madgascan Government today with protests at Parliament and meetings scheduled with Government to try and resolve the dispute.

A new global union alliance formed of unions based in DP World terminals has vowed to raise standards in health and safety, automation and contract labour.

An ITF inspector helped bring an eight-month ordeal to a close for the crew of the vessel Newlead Granadino stranded in Baltimore Harbour in the United States, with the repatriation of the final six Filipino seafarers on 31 May.

Over 200,000 Brazilian workers protested on 24 May against labour reforms that the government is trying to push through without the consent of workers and trade unions.