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The European Commission's decision to lift the “yellow card” from Thailand as a sign of recognition of its progress in tackling illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing is disturbing given the significant challenges that still face fishers working in the Thai fishing industry.

ITF-affiliated unions in India have joined trade unions representing nearly 200 million workers in a historic two-day general strike.

All Mohammed Mustapha wanted to do was walk around freely.

The latest release in Australia of Cabinet documents from 1996 and 1997 shows that the government of the time was planning a major industrial clash with waterfront unions, despite their protestations of innocence, something the High Court later found to be a probable conspiracy against the union and its members.

"We leave 2018 with a high level of optimism that we can make the next year our most successful yet" - watch ITF general secretary Stephen Cotton's new year message for 2019

Australian seafarers are continuing their fight to secure jobs in their coastal waters, after a delegation visited Canada to examine and learn from their shipping laws which protect seafarers’ jobs and wages in Canada.

XPO has now announced policy changes for employees in the United States – but these changes do not go far enough.

The ITF and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has written to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) director general asking him to urgently intervene in the case of seven Thai rail union leaders.

The Global union federations, the International Transport Workers’ Federation ‘ITF’ and UNI Global Union ‘UNI’ and Deutsche Post DHL Group ‘DPDHL’ worked towards building a constructive and solution-oriented approach during 2018 by following the agreed procedure of the OECD protocol first established in July 2016.

A year after Ryanair announced it would recognise unions, the company still has a long way to go before it can be considered a fair employer.