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A scheme to build power and strength for transport unions in the ITF Asia Pacific region reached a key milestone this week.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) is pleased to announce that the 12 strong crew of the Malaviya 20 – the ship abandoned in Great Yarmouth, UK in June last year – finally began their journey home on Tuesday, complete with all the wages they were owed.

Uber drivers in Qatar and New Delhi, India taking strike action over cuts in fares which are reducing their earnings have received strong support from the ITF family.

A union awareness week in January by the ITF and the Independent Federation of Myanmar Seafarers (IFOMS) persuaded 125 seafarers to become union members for the first time.

International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) unions are taking action today to demand that IKEA takes responsibility for exploitation in its European road transport supply chain.

Trade unions from the FBTTT (Federación Bolivariana de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras del sector Transporte, Afines y Conexos) in Venezuela participated in an organising and strengthening seminar last week.

‘A vibrant, dynamic event laying out a clear work programme to congress 2018.’

ITF general secretary Steve Cotton has expressed his sadness at the death at the age of 81 of lifelong trade unionist and former Canadian Labour Congress president Bob White. Writing to the members of Bob White’s former union, Unifor, Steve Cotton said: Like you, we in the ITF mourn the loss of Bob

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) today condemned an offer by a small coalition of Ukrainian trade unions to slash minimum wages for the country’s seafarers.

Burkina Faso road workers ended a planned three-day strike early after winning promises of government action on road security and the extension of their collective bargaining agreement (CBA).