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The ITF affiliate ACDECTA - Asociación Colombiana de Controladores Aéreos - is demanding the government hire and train more air traffic controllers, due to the workload increase that is jeopardizing the safety of air operations in the country. According to ACDECTA, the increase in air operations is

Following the attack of two vessels in the Gulf of Guinea last week, the International Transport Worker’ Federation today called for urgent global and regional cooperation to fight piracy in the region.

Activists from trade unions around the world took action on 7 November 2019 in support of a group of Thai union leaders. https://twitter.com/SatawuMedia/status/1192400490669187073?s=20 The 13 leaders of the State Railway Union of Thailand (SRUT) are due to face trail on 11 November in charges

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has written to the prime minister of Kuwait to warn him that plans to use the military to break a planned strike by civil aviation workers would break international law. Members of the Civil Aviation Labor Union of Kuwait have given notice that

The National Union of Seafarers of India (NUSI) has begun a drive to plant thousands of trees. It began with all officers, petty officers and ratings being asked to plant a tree during August and September. This resulted in 7,000 new trees. In five years, NUSI intends to plant 100,000 trees across

A shareholder motion calling on Qantas to review its practice of carrying out deportations for the Australian government has achieved record support.

The ITF has paid tribute to Tabudi Abner Ramakgolo, a founding member of South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) and former ITF regional chair for Africa, who has died. Brother Tabudi worked tirelessly as an activist organiser, bringing together workers in transport, cleaning and

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have committed to work closer together to support seafarers calling in all Saudi Arabia ports. On 21 October 2019, the IMO Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mr Essam M. Alammari, met with

ITF affiliate, the ATU (Amalgamated Transit Union) in the USA, is one of unions representing public transport workers at Transdev. Bus operators employed at WMATA’s (Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority) Cinder Bed Road bus depot, the first bus depot privatised in Washington DC’s Metro