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Asia Pacific young workers get connected
Young transport workers from ITF unions in Asia Pacific have been learning how to build a network of activists and young leaders so they can play a powerful role in campaigning and organising to win a better deal for working people.
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Global supply chain workers need international standard – unions press demands at International Labour Conference
The ITF, its member unions and its sister global unions are pressing at the International Labour Conference (ILC) for an international standard on decent work in global supply chains to benefit workers.
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Global federations collaborate against job losses in the North Sea
Maritime and oil and gas unions affiliated to global federations IndustriAll and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) met in Aberdeen 19-20 May 2016 to begin development of an industrial and political strategy to challenge the replacement of quality jobs with cheap labour by employers in the North Sea. The group represents workers from Denmark, Norway and UK.
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Global solidarity and practical next steps are outcomes of ITF youth mission to Palestine
A group of young transport workers representing the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) have spent last week on an international mission to Palestine. The visit was part of a commitment from the ITF to building industrial solidarity and effective responses to the challenges faced by transport workers in the region.
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Pledges for action after Palestine youth mission
A youth mission including transport workers from South Africa, UK, Australia and Canada has just returned from Palestine. The group were representing ITF unions SATAWU, Unite the Union, MUA and Unifor.
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Union wins back workers’ jobs
Eighteen sacked workers at the Solomon Islands Ports Authority (SIPA) have been reinstated after the Workers' Union of the Solomon Islands (WUSI) and the ITF intervened.
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Brazil's seafarers ready to take on Transpetro
Brazilian seafarers are ready to begin industrial action this Saturday, 14 May, in a dispute over discriminatory practices that potentially undermine the national flag identity of its offshore and cabotage fleet.
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Colombian dockers take action for safety
Workers from several companies at the port of Buenaventura, Colombia have united to take action because of concerns over safety and working conditions there, with the support of the ITF.
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Advance notice to press – invite to join ITF youth mission on Palestinian truck drivers project visit
Young transport workers representing ITF unions from four countries will visit the Irtah border crossing between Palestine and Israel next week to support the ITF truck drivers project based there.
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ITF backs workers’ calls for justice at Solomon Islands Port Authority
The ITF has asked the prime minister of the Solomon Islands to intervene immediately over the ‘extraordinary’ recent anti-worker and anti-union actions of the chief executive of the Solomon Islands Ports Authority (SIPA).
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ITF announces MLC implementation and enforcement study
The ITF (International Transport Workers Federation) has commissioned an in depth study into the implementation and enforcement of the ILO Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC), which came into force in August 2013. The study will be carried out by Seafarers’ Rights International (SRI).
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Global unions condemn Turkey detention of rights defenders
The ITF, Education International (EI), Public Services International (PSI) and the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF, the ITF’s European arm) have jointly written to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to condemn his government’s violations of rights and freedoms.
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