All content tagged with: "crew change crisis"
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17 Nov 2020
Canada continues its maritime leadership with new Seafarers’ Welfare Board - ITF
The International Transport Workers’ Federation commends the Federal Government and maritime industry of Canada for continuing their cooperative leadership to...
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17 Nov 2020
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Governments must resolve Jag Anand, Anastasia stalemate and get seafarers home
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is urging the governments of China, India and Australia to collaborate and urgently end the stalemate around...
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03 Nov 2020
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Unions and employers partner on a project to ensure seafarers from the Philippines are ‘Covid-free’
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the International Maritime Employers’ Council (IMEC) have launched an enhanced quarantine and testing...
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02 Nov 2020
ITF and Marlow battle to get crew changed as crisis hits eight months
Stuck on board a ship since February, an apprentice engineer feels humiliated that she has no sanitary towels. She’s increasingly distressed that she cannot go...
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22 Oct 2020
Press Release
Japanese car ship arrested in Melbourne over crew change
International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) officials have been involved in stopping a Japanese-owned car import vessel from slipping through Australian...
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14 Oct 2020
ITF’s new Norwegian Inspector gets crew home, paid stolen wages
In August the Panama-flagged towing vessel ‘Diavlos Force’ left Piereus, Greece on a contract to transport a hull from a Romanian shipyard in the Black Sea to...
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05 Oct 2020
ITF and JNG Joint Statement: On Seafarers’ Rights and the Present Crew Change Crisis
Our industry is responsible for 90% of global trade. Historically, we have been critical to the development of national economies and global prosperity. We remain...
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01 Oct 2020
ITF Civil Aviation ensures new ICAO guidance puts aviation workers and seafarers first
The ITF have advocated for new guidance to governments from the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) prioritising aviation workers’ and passengers’...
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30 Sep 2020
“Help us. No food. No salary”: Abandoned Vietnamese seafarers finally home with union support
It was an image that shocked many. A ship with the desperate scrawls of a desperate crew scribbled across the hull of what had become their floating prison, as the...
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24 Sep 2020
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Crew change crisis risks becoming forced labour epidemic as tragedy hits six-month mark on World Maritime Day
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has slammed government inaction to alleviate the crew change crisis, declaring that current Covid-19 border...