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26 Feb 2015
Union action protects right to strike
Union resistance to a plan by employers to remove the right reached a peak during an international action day on Feb 18th. Within a week unions and employers...
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26 Feb 2015
Press Release
Right to strike upheld – but needs defending
ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) general secretary Steve Cotton explained: “Unions and employers meeting at the ILO have upheld the general...
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23 Feb 2015
Press Release
ITF welcomes hard-fought deal for ILWU workers on US West Coast
Negotiations had been underway since June last year in what had become an increasingly bitter dispute. The PMA earlier this week ratcheted up their side of the...
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20 Feb 2015
ILO moves on shore leave for seafarers
The recommendations, which now go through the ILO for discussion before implementation, would bring seafarers’ identity documents in line with e-passports. This...
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17 Feb 2015
‘Hands off our right to strike’ demand unions in global campaign
Under the slogan ‘Sometimes you have to say NO!: hands off our right to strike’ the campaign kicked off with an international action day on 18 February and will...
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13 Feb 2015
Press Release
Employer groups around the world try to undermine the right to strike. Join the global action on February 18 to stop them.
These attacks come at a time when employers and governments implement austerity measures, the growth of precarious jobs is rampant and social protests are...
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12 Feb 2015
A new welcome for visiting seafarers
The MLC requires member states to ensure that seafarers have access to shore-based facilities and services to secure their health and well-being, and recommends...
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11 Feb 2015
Press Release
ITF welcomes shore leave progress
At the ILO in Geneva a tripartite meeting of employers, trade unions and governments agreed a common approach to improving ILO Convention 185 on seafarers’...