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Unions representing workers at XPO companies worldwide have issued the clearest challenge yet to the company to halt its anti-union policies and cut a fair deal for its workers.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and the UITP (International Association of Public Transport) are joining forces to put public transport at the forefront of tackling climate change.

Global union federation the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) today releases an illustrated booklet recounting the organisation’s fight to support the lawful Republic during the Spanish Civil War, and how the lessons it learnt there allowed it to work with Allied intelligence to fight Nazism in World War Two.

The ITF Asia Pacific region is growing in numbers and in strength.

Members of ITF road and rail unions worldwide meet in Belgium today to set the agenda for the future of those transport sectors. One of their first actions will be to rally in central Brussels against European Union plans that could undermine worker protections and quality transport.

Global union federation the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) begins a week-long conference in Brussels on Monday that will confront the issues facing rail and road workers – and passengers – worldwide. One of their first actions will be to rally in the city against the European Union’s proposed fourth railway package.

The ITF and its union Alianza de Tranviarios de México (ATM) made a passionate plea for Mexico City not to abandon the sustainable system of trolleybuses as it seeks changes to the city’s transport systems.

Hundreds of dockworkers from ETF and ITF-affiliated unions will demonstrate tomorrow in front of the offices of Northern European logistics company Unifeeder in Aarhus, Denmark for allowing seafarers to lash and unlash their charted vessels. This is in direct contravention of the ITF dockers’ clause which specifically reserves lashing and unlashing work for dockers.

Next Monday 5 December trade union representatives and leaders from 42 countries worldwide will join a rally in central Brussels against the European Union’s proposed fourth railway package.