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18 Jun 2015
Press Release
ITF welcomes Australian Senate inquiry into FOC shipping and condemns government attacks on cabotage
The Inquiry by the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee will examine the national security, fuel security, environmental, social and...
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17 Jun 2015
Press Release
St Lucia hosts union training connecting dockers worldwide
Representatives from unions in eight countries across the Caribbean have come together in Rodney Bay to gain skills in using the dockers’ port intelligence portal...
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17 Jun 2015
Arab World oil supply chain unions forge alliances for workers’ power
The alliances were developed during two workshops in Amman, Jordan on 10/11 and 13/14 June. Both workshops ended with a commitment to identify, strengthen and...
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16 Jun 2015
Press Release
ITF and SRI chart a course on maritime human rights
The paper analysed replies by member states to a survey conducted by SRI on the implementation into their national laws of the IMO/ILO (International Labour...
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10 Jun 2015
Peru's dockworkers win
The ITF reacted quickly at the beginning of the dispute, providing strategic support via its Americas office. ITF officials approached President Humala about the...
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03 Jun 2015
Secret trade pact gives ‘consolidated power’ to global transport firms warns ITF
See the classified documents. It is alarmed that the deregulation envisaged in the text is about ideology not efficiency, and warns it would undermine ILO social...
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03 Jun 2015
Press Release
Secret trade pact set to rob from the poor - and give to global transport firms
The documents are available here: https://wikileaks.org/tisa/ ITF president Paddy Crumlin said: “This text would supercharge the most powerful companies in the...
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01 Jun 2015
Press Release
ITF urges Australian senate inquiry into FOC shipping and condemns government attacks on cabotage
The call follows the ITF’s recent condemnation (see http://goo.gl/HrKk0P) of the conservative Australian government’s moves to deregulate its shipping industry...