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International trade union representatives on a fact-finding mission to the Turkish-Syrian border found local authorities struggling to support Kurdish refugees fleeing the barbaric violence of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria, and called for greater transparency on how Turkey has spent and distributed international aid.

Dockers from across Europe will join their brothers and sisters at a rally in Rotterdam tomorrow (Wednesday 17 December) to protest against the impact of developments in the container sector at the port there.

Australian government must stop exploitation, says ITF

Twelve young transport workers from nine Latin American countries added their voices to calls for action as world leaders gathered in Lima, Peru for the UN climate change talks, COP20 – a prelude to world climate talks in Paris next year.

Twenty trade union leaders representing workers at LAN in South America successfully persuaded Ecuador’s Minister of Labour yesterday to ask LAN Ecuador to reinstate Ximena López, general secretary of the Airline Workers Trade Union (SITA).

ITF affiliated unions are promoting and distributing a film which highlights the dire conditions faced by seafarers in the Black Sea.

Unions from states surrounding the Black Sea are promoting a new film exposing the dire and disgraceful conditions under which many seafarers live – and die – there.

Global and European bodies representing transport workers have hailed strong union and community action in defence of workers in Belgium.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation is getting set for 2015 changes in the determination of safe manning of vessels, which come as a result of new International Maritime Organization (IMO) requirements.

Trade unionists, pensioners and disabled people turned out to a victory rally on 8 December organised by Sheffield Trades Union Council, UK to celebrate the dropping of criminal public disorder charges against two of their fellow ‘freedom riders’ following a public outcry.