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The father of a cabin crew worker who died, his family believes, from an illness caused by breathing in toxic air on aeroplanes is to meet cabin crew from more than 40 different countries in London.

Air traffic services (ATS) workers around the world are increasingly being targeted in attacks on the right to strike – so the ITF has produced guidance to help their unions navigate the complexities of this more hostile industrial environment.

Over 200 students and faculty members from Myanmar Maritime University participated in a seminar on mental wellbeing, which was organised by the ITF and the Independent Federation of Myanmar Seafarers (IFOMS), in collaboration with the university and student union.

Unions backing 43 dockers sacked in Madagascar are demonstrating at the country’s embassies in three continents worldwide this week – as well as sending messages of protest.

Activists from ITF civil aviation unions meet in London this week to set out their plans for the future of the industry.

The Government of Madagascar is the target of a global campaign launched today (28th February) to defend dockworkers at the ICTSI operated Port of Toamasina in Madagascar. The campaign by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) will see protests outside of Madagascan embassies across three continents. Steve Cotton, ITF General Secretary said this was the first action in an ongoing campaign to get 43 dock workers reinstated after they were sacked for being members of a union.

ITF unions from Sweden and Germany have joined together to put pressure on IKEA to take responsibility for exploitation in its European road transport supply chain.

ITF president and chair of the ITF dockers' section, Paddy Crumlin, and ITF general secretary, Steve Cotton, address the following message to the members of the International Longshoremen's Association, the ILA.

The ITF and the ETF, along with their members FSC CCOO and FESMC UGT, have today condemned the Spanish government’s refusal to be part of the negotiations in the dispute over port labour reform, as the dockworkers’ unions announce strikes from 6 March.