All content tagged with: "seafarers"
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11 May 2020
ITF message to seafarers
This is a message for every ITF seafarers affiliate and every one of their members – the seafarers who have professionally and diligently fulfilled their jobs...
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08 May 2020
Seafarers' access to long-term medications
The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the global seafaring community to numerous challenges. Maritime employers and seafarers' unions, along with many other international...
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06 May 2020
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Industry and unions set out a 12-step solution for governments to free seafarers from COVID-19 lockdown
Comprehensive ‘roadmap’ developed by a supply chain coalition led by industry and unions in cooperation with UN agencies 12-step plan issued by International...
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26 Apr 2020
Respect seafarers' right to emergency medical treatment ashore
The International Labour Organization (ILO) Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) is clear – a seafarer, while working on board, has the right to adequate health...
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22 Apr 2020
Abandoned at sea in the midst of a pandemic
Three Greek seafarers and 22 of their shipmates on two bulk carriers at anchor in the Port of Djibouti are among a rising tide of crew abandoned around the world at...
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14 Apr 2020
Covid-19: campaign highlights key role of maritime workers
A campaign from the Marine Transport Workers’ Trade Union of Ukraine (MTWTU), supported by the ITF and the International Maritime Employers’ Council (IMEC), is...
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09 Apr 2020
Maritime unions and employers call on governments to identify seafarers as key workers and facilitate crew changes
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) Special Tripartite Committee of the Maritime Labour Convention issued a statement last week that accurately frames the...
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24 Mar 2020
Imagine a world if you can
The life of a seafarer: the “invisible” workforce that keeps world trade moving. Ninety per cent of the world’s goods are transported by sea. On any given...
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19 Mar 2020
ITF and ICS calls on global agencies to keep maritime industry moving in Covid-19 crisis
The ITF and the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) have jointly written an open letter to the United Nations agencies for the global maritime industry calling...
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11 Mar 2020
Seafarer home after four years thanks to union
An Indian seafarer has finally returned home, four years after being abandoned in Nigeria by his employer. Chetanveer Singh, a third engineer known to his friends...