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An ITF/FES gender and climate change workshop brought together 14 women from 13 African urban transport trade unions, inspiring them to work within their individual unions to ensure that new initiatives take into account the needs of women workers and passengers.

Thousands of union officials and activists used ITF Action Week (6-12 October) to highlight a host of major issues affecting transport workers, by talking to workers and passengers at bus and railway stations, handing out leaflets to truck drivers and dockers, holding seminars, organising press conferences and protests, and utilising social media.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) LATAM Network has slammed as “nakedly political” the sacking by the LAN Ecuador airline of a trade union leader, and promised actions to support her.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) has contacted the government of Jordan over the arrests on Tuesday of around 150 trade unionists at the Aqaba Container Terminals facility run by APM Terminals.

For the first time ever five national trade union federations representing workers in major ports in India have come together to form a joint strategy.

ITF general secretary Steve Cotton has strongly urged the Malaysian prime minister to ensure the immediate and unconditional reinstatement of 18 leaders and activists of the ITF-affiliated Railwaymen’s Union of Malaya (RUM) dismissed by KTMB (Malayan Railways Ltd), and insisted that the KTMB cease any victimisation of the union’s members

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and the FNV Bondgenoten trade union repeated their call today for urgent dialogue on the future of the port of Rotterdam, which is facing potentially damaging overcapacity

Indonesia’s Seafarer Union, Kesatuan Pelaut Indonesia (KPI) has agreed to enter into a federation with transport unions from Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand after a formative meeting in Kupang today.

Seven hundred women were among 1,000 union activists employed by the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSTRC) in India who met the ITF to discuss how to overcome gender divisions in order to jointly fight for fairness at work and improved working conditions.

Trade unions are part of the solution to the climate crisis - that’s the overwhelming message for transport workers around the world as the threat of climate change continues to dominate headlines.