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08 Apr 2015
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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...
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09 Apr 2015
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...
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10 Apr 2015
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...
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27 Apr 2015
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...
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30 Apr 2015
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...
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30 Apr 2015
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...
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11 May 2015
Press Release
Survey reveals need for seafarer HIV and wellbeing action
Available at http://goo.gl/L8AWxH the report A broader vision of seafarer wellbeing: survey of ITF maritime affiliates on HIV/AIDS, health and wellbeing questioned...
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11 May 2015
Press Release
ITF president declares Australia’s Barrow Island a port of convenience
Chevron’s Gorgon LNG project off Australia’s north-west coast has blown out from US$37 billion to US$54 billion due to the company’s ongoing...