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Norway’s Parat union claims some progress in its continuing battle against unfair transatlantic competition in the airline industry, with the announcement by the Norwegian government on 17 January that it will not change its immigration laws at this point to allow an airline to operate with only

Dockers in Hong Kong who have recently returned to work following a long running dispute over pay and working conditions, have been showing their solidarity with locked out colleagues in the US. Workers at the Port of Vancouver, Washington have now been locked out for over two months by United Grain

The ITF Women’s Committee is calling on affiliates to mark International Women’s Day on 8 March 2013. To support affiliates’ activities, the ITF has re-produced previous campaign posters and produced new stickers for this year. The materials carry the slogan ‘Strong Unions Need Women’. They reflect

The ITF this week branded Qatar Airways’ (QA) imminent membership of prestigious world aviation grouping the oneworld alliance “a disgrace”. The ITF, which exposed QA’s treatment of women workers last month, is leading protests against QA’s ascension to the alliance next Wednesday 30th October. The

Officials belonging to the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1181 demonstrated outside New York’s City Hall on 23 January to demand that Mayor Michael Bloomberg meet with school bus drivers and matrons to settle their ongoing strike for job protection. The workers have been on strike since 16

ITF and affiliated maritime union inspection teams in Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine inspected around 120 vessels in some 30 ports, spoke to several thousand seafarers and recovered unpaid wages during a four-day action to expose substandard working conditions and fight for

Inland Navigation workers in Bangladesh are celebrating the signing of a tripartite agreement on 11 January which brings to an end their three-day strike.

The annual conference of IFATCA (the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations) in Indonesia at the end of April brought the ITF and IFATCA together to build on their 2007 memorandum and strengthen future working. The ITF was represented by general secretary David Cockroft

With the death toll rising daily in Gaza the ITF today called for an immediate ceasefire and launched an urgent humanitarian appeal for those affected.

The ITF and its affiliate the Seafarers' Union of Turkey (TDS) organised a one-day MLC seminar in Istanbul on 7 May to raise awareness of the implications for Turkey of the imminent entry into force of the MLC, 2006. The event attracted some 150 participants, primarily from the shipping community