Global union leaders will be in court in Seoul tomorrow (26 July), to witness the latest in a series of unjust trials of South Korean union leaders. They will then report on what they have seen directly outside the building.
ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) general secretary Steve Cotton has spoken out to back the RMT and Unite offshore workers taking industrial action in the North Sea.
Global union leaders will attend a Seoul court next Tuesday, 26 July, to witness the treatment of Cho Sung-deok, one of several South Korean union leaders who have been put on show trials on trumped-up charges.
After a long struggle, SNTT, the national amalgamated transport workers’ union in Colombia which represents dockers and other workers, signed a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with APM/TCBUEN container terminal at Buenaventura port on 15 July.
Seafarers can now easily access up-to-date information and guidance about HIV/AIDS on their mobile devices, thanks to a new wellbeing app launched by the ITF this week.
The ITF joined many of its UK affiliates at this year’s Tolpuddle festival in Dorset, UK on 17 July to commemorate the six farm workers who were cruelly punished when they attempted to organise in 1834.