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08 Apr 2016
Workers to benefit from stronger unions in Venezuela
ITF regional secretary Antonio Fritz and deputy regional secretary Edgar Diaz held a seminar in Caracas on 29-31 March with the Federación Bolivariana de...
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07 Apr 2016
Press Release
ITF comment on Panama Papers revelations
General secretary Stephen Cotton said: "Money laundering, terrorist financing and tax evasion are all clearly unacceptable practices and at odds with the global...
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31 Mar 2016
Press Release
Australian senate hearing raises “shocking concerns”
The fact that the captain of the ‘death ship’ Sage Sagittarius – on which three people have died in suspicious circumstances – was allowed to work off the...
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18 Mar 2016
ITF unions share successes to mark International Women’s Day
That's from Christine at the Zimbabwe Amalgamated Railway Workers’ Union and it's just one of the stories shared to mark International Women’s Day last...
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17 Mar 2016
Support global action day for fast food workers
The IUF (International Union of Food, Agricultural and Hospitality Workers) organises the day. It hopes that unions worldwide will organise protests outside local,...
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16 Mar 2016
ITF delegation lobbying hard at CSW60 for women workers’ rights
ITF executive board women's vice president Brigitta Pass (FNV Bondgenoten, Netherlands) and ITF women’s committee vice-chairs Ann Anderson (CCWU, Guyana) and...
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10 Mar 2016
Singapore ‘key ITF strategic hub’ to deliver worker wins
The region is crucial to the ITF’s delivery of its ‘four levers’ strategy and vision, which was set by its congress in 2014. This directs the federation to...
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19 Feb 2016
Zika virus advice released for seafarers
The factsheet can be downloaded here. You can catch the virus by being bitten by an infected Aedes mosquito and it can be spread through blood transfusion and...