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The ITF’s roads and railways action week (5-11 October) was a huge success, with hundreds of thousands of workers and their ITF-affiliated unions worldwide in 48 countries campaigning for publicly-owned, safe and ecological transport.

Transport workers from Guyana and Venezuela staged simultaneous rallies for peace in each country on Thursday.
The workers, from ITF-affiliated unions, protested in front of the embassy of Guyana in Caracas and the embassy of Venezuela in Georgetown, to demand a peaceful resolution to border problems between the two nations.

Global union federations the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and IndustriALL Global Union have welcomed news that two of their Australian member unions are considering a merger that would create a new ‘super union’.

A key meeting of United Nations agency the ILO (International Labour Organization) has just agreed two far-reaching resolutions – one for action on road safety and one on transport network companies such as Uber – following submissions by concerned employer and trade union organisations.

A cross-sectoral global union training seminar was held in Grangemouth, Scotland last week on the industrial hubs programme, a joint initiative between the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and Brussels based global union federation IndustriALL.

“We have mind blowing potential here in this room!” That was one of the comments from ITF industrial hubs programme coordinator Mark Lyon during the opening session of training workshops for the programme in Scotland last week.

Following consultations with the ITF, major Philippines-based manning agent Magsaysay Maritime Corporation has announced a number of forward-looking initiatives on HIV/AIDS and seafaring.

A Berlin conference organised by Germany’s Friedrich-Ebert Foundation (FES) last week brought together global union workers for an intensive three-day conference on campaigning across borders and continents.

118 inspectors working for the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) have gathered in Panama City, Panama this week for the ITF worldwide inspectors’ seminar (WWIS).

Twenty-six young workers gathered at the Barbados Workers’ Union labour college last week for the first ever seminar specifically for young workers in the Caribbean. The event focused on developing strategic campaigns, as well as on organising skills, educational methods and building a regional network.