Sharing of campaign ideas, the importance of tactics and having a strong strategy, new ways to organise youth committees, how to organise apathetic workers – just some of the things previous ITF summer school participants have taken away from the event.

Five Indian union federations have come together in a historic joint campaign for dockers’ jobs in the face of port corporatisation and have announced an indefinite strike in 11 major ports beginning on 9 March.

Worldwide action organised by the ITF and Public Services International (PSI), in concert with other global unions, the ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation) and trade unions worldwide, has helped thwart an attempt to remove the right to strike at the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Following a worldwide trade union campaign to defend it, the right to strike has been re-affirmed at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is joining its affiliate the Maritime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) in celebrating the signing of a new collective agreement for workers at the Ports of Auckland.

The international Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has welcomed a tentative agreement struck between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) on a new five-year contract covering workers at all 29 West Coast ports of the USA.

Global union federations and their affiliated unions around the world today mounted an intensive campaign to defend the unalienable right to strike, which is under attack from employer groups at the ILO (International Labour Organization).

While inequality is rising, employers’ groups around the world are trying to undermine the right to strike at national and international level.

A new project from the International Seafarers’ Welfare Assistance Network (ISWAN) aims to encourage the formation of port welfare boards around the world to provide a welcome to visiting seafarers. The project, which is sponsored by the ITF Seafarers’ Trust, is being managed by the UK-based Merchant Navy Welfare Board (MNWB), which has launched a website explaining the role of welfare boards – an integral part of the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC).

Dockers at the south bank of Dublin Port, Ireland, have won a deal to reclaim their jobs, bringing to an end their long-running dispute with cement company Ecocem, thanks to support from SIPTU (Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union), the ITF and the solidarity of local truck drivers.

The ITF is reiterating the need for stringent health and safety measures in ports after an operator in New Zealand was found responsible for a dockers’ death.

ITF dockers’ unions have launched collective action this week in support of imprisoned Russian trade union leader Leonid Tikhonov.