Portsmouth demo tomorrow to tackle Condor Ferries’ ‘social dumping’
Representatives of ITF-affiliated unions, including the RMT and Unite the Union, will be joined by the ITF’s UK and Ireland inspectorate at 16:00 tomorrow, 18...
Update on MV Isis, Tilbury, UK
Last week the ITF initiated arrest procedures against the vessel Isis at Tilbury on behalf of its crew.As a result of the legal action the operators, Derna...
IMO marks World Maritime Day
This year's theme for the International Maritime Organization (IMO) World Maritime Day, 26 September, was sustainable development. IMO secretary-general Koji...
Success for first seminar on putting Mexico City policy into practice
Delegates gathered in London this month for the first seminar on ITF Mexico City policy implementation. Twenty-six union leaders and staff from ITF seafarers’...
Delegation takes union rights protest to Swiss heartland
A forty-strong international delegation took its protest over a lack of labour rights direct to the Swiss heartland today, when it put a global company...
ITF moves to arrest vessel Isis at Tilbury
The ITF has initiated arrest proceedings on behalf of the crew of the Marshall Islands-flagged M/S Isis, which is moored at Tilbury, England and whose crew are owed...
ITF Seafarers’ Trust awards GBP100,000 to help Filipino seafarers
The ITF Seafarers’ Trust – the charity arm of the International Transport Workers” Federation – today authorised two grants totalling GBP100,000 to aid...
Tunisian ITF unions call strike in face of workers’ rights abuses
Transport sector workers in Tunisia have called a one-day strike on 12 December 2013 in response to the continuing erosion of workers’ rights. ITF affiliates...