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ITF unions act on container safety on Workers’ Memorial Day
Members from the dockers’, road transport workers, railway workers and seafarers’ sections were part of 28 April activities highlighting the ITF container...
Sri Lanka union pioneers HIV non-discrimination deal
The ‘special agreement’, added to the three-year memorandum of agreement that runs from 2015 to 2017, will cover around 720 seafarers working on 16 vessels...
Women leaders build change
Thirty women leaders from 27 countries, members of the international ITF committee that represents women transport workers all over the globe, discussed gender...
Cotton hails ‘momentous day’ for Myanmar labour movement
In the presence of IFOMS union activists, a large international union delegation, Tin Mar Htwe, deputy director general of the Myanmar labour department, and Toe...
Knowledge is power! Training kicks off for dockers’ organising and negotiating tool
That was the opening line from ITF Asia Pacific regional secretary Mahendra Sharma as training on a new dockers’ organising, bargaining and negotiating tool...
Joint ECSA, ETF, ICS, ITF press release: Thousands of lives will be lost in the Mediterranean unless EU governmnents take urgent action, say shipowner groups and seafarer unions
Since 2014, thousands of people have been attempting the dangerous sea crossing to Europe, from Africa and the Middle East, in overcrowded boats not fit for...
ITF General Secretary hails momentous and historic day for the labour movement in Myanmar
Cotton told the delegates that “as Myanmar undergoes a transition towards a more democratic form of government, independent labour unions will be crucial in...
ITF wins government commitment to workers’ rights in Burkina Faso
ITF Africa regional secretary Joseph Katende congratulated prime minister Yacouba Isaac Zida and minister for infrastructure and transport Daouda Traoré on the...