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Access to Valparaiso Port in Chile was virtually closed on 4 April when maritime and seafarers’ union members and supporters marched to oppose government proposals to open the country’s cabotage to foreign competition and to push through legislation quickly. Privately owned terminal 1 was partially

Britain’s major transport unions are urging National Express Group shareholders to send a strong message of protest to senior management at today’s (Thursday 9 May) AGM over it labour relations record in North America. The unions - RMT, TSSA, Unite, ASLEF and the International Transport Workers’

Workers have overwhelmingly approved the first labour contract at the Pacific Beach Hotel in Waikiki, Hawaii, ending 10 years of dispute that wound up in the courts.

The ITF welcomed two Libyan unions to the global union family last week, and celebrated Libyan workers’ success in building a new democracy in the country

The Maritime Piracy Humanitarian Response Programme (MPHRP) is backing the film A Hijacking, which it describes as “brutally accurate in its depiction of the horror inflicted on the victims of pirate attacks”. Directed by Danish Director Tobias Lindholm, the film – which was shot on a ship that had

The ITF and its affiliated maritime unions in Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine will be exposing substandard working conditions and fighting for improved safety in what they have described as the ‘Black Sea of shame’, next week, from 13 to 15 May. The Black Sea is one of the

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) is calling on international aviation authorities to investigate allegations that Turkish Airlines (THY) is playing with safety by flying airplanes with insufficient or unqualified crew in order to get around a strike by THY workers protesting at

• Turkish Courts find sackings of four Turkish DHL workers linked to union activities • Forum on Union Rights and Organising in Istanbul will call for stronger legal protections for DHL workers in Turkey • Global unions to join picket line for all 30 sacked Turkish DHL workers in Istanbul • ITF and

The ITF has called on Panama to join the effort to help the recently released crew of the Iceberg 1 to recover from their hostage ordeal. The seafarers on the Panama-flagged vessel were held for nearly three years by Somali pirates – who subjected them to torture, starvation and even mutilation –

The ITF has today (4 April) expressed its condemnation of dismissals at Chile national airline LAN, which merged with Brazilian TAM Airlines in December 2011 to form LATAM Airlines Group (LATAM). In a letter to LAN senior vice president human resources Emilio del Real Soto, ITF civil aviation