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Trump travel ban: ITF comment
Commenting on President Trump’s travel ban ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) president Paddy Crumlin stated: “The 2016 national election in the US featured a heavy focus on immigration. President Donald Trump’s post-election actions have signalled that this will continue. The latest attack on immigrants has targeted the nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries.”
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Support sacked dockworkers in Nigeria, ITF urges unions
The ITF is urging its unions to support its newly-launched LabourStart solidarity campaign for thousands of unfairly fired dockworkers in Nigeria.
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The Power of Informal Transport Workers
Informal transport workers are being heard! See how these workers are running the only public transport in some countries, and how ITF unions are helping them to influence law-makers, policy-makers and city planners.
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Retirement not end of line for pioneering woman train driver
The first woman train driver in the Arab World and Africa, according to her trade union the UMT, has hit the age of 50 at which all Morocco’s train drivers have to retire.
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ITF backs workers’ demands for basic services at Peel Ports
The ITF sent a message of support to a protest by dockworkers and lorry drivers on 13 January over their demands that Peel Ports provides basic toilet, shower and catering facilities at Liverpool Port’s Seaforth container dock.
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Mentor unions key innovation helping informal workers build power
ITF unions around the world are helping informal transport workers realise their power, according to the newly-published evaluation report of the ITF’s informal workers’ project and a video by the ITF and the Global Labour Institute.
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MLC abandonment provisions coming into force: ITF comment
The ITF (International Transport Workers is giving a warm welcome to the major new Maritime Labour Convention provisions on crew abandonment that come into force tomorrow.
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Stranded crew case ‘a human disgrace’
An ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) inspector has issued a last ditch call to a ship owner and its flag state to act to stop the suffering of a 17-strong crew abandoned in Algeria.
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