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01 Sep 2021
Remembering John Coombs
Paddy Crumlin ITF President, MUA National Secretary On behalf of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF)...
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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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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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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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02 Sep 2021
Queensland: Australian-first COVID vaccinations for international seafarers
Queensland will become the first Australian jurisdiction to administer COVID vaccines to all international seafarers arriving in local ports, with a trial program...
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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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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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27 Feb 2015
Press Release
ITF joins US Coast Guard shore leave debate
Submissions have been made from across the industry, including from the AMO, MM&P, MEBA and SIU trade unions, the Chamber of Shipping of America and the...