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UN must persuade governments to adopt crew change protocols or risk ‘humanitarian disaster’

The UN Secretary General has been urged by global industrial and shipping leaders to persuade his 193 member states to act urgently to avoid a “humanitarian crisis”, with over 200,000 tired, mentally-stretched seafarers currently stuck working on vessels across the globe and unable to be relieved of their duties.
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Covid-19 is not an excuse to strip workers' rights in India

The Council of Global Unions (CGU) – representing more than 200 million workers from across the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), global union federations including the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD – wholeheartedly condemns the suspension of labour laws by some Indian states during the Covid-19 crisis.

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