Dockers

The ITF’s Dockers’ Section campaigns globally to secure and improve the safety, rights and labour standards of port workers globally. We do this by:

• Engaging with the major global network terminal operators including APM Terminal, Bolloré, DP World, Hutchison Port Holdings, PSA International and others to set and raise standards globally and engage companies on solutions for joint challenges and priorities.
• Organising and campaigning locally, regionally and globally to build industrial power to secure collective bargaining agreements, regional framework agreements and transnational agreements.
• Shining a spotlight on any attack on dockers’ fundamental rights and holding employers, governments, investors and companies accountable for ensuring decent work, fundamental labour rights and genuine social protections for dockers worldwide.
• Representing dockers in global collective bargaining, engaging with and influencing international policy institutions including the ILO and IMO, and industry bodies like ICHCA to raise key issues facing dockers across automation and digitalisation, health and safety and sustainability.
• Leveraging our global strength to stand in solidarity with unions and dockers under attack – from attacks on workers’ fundamental right to join trade unions, attack the right to strike and the growing threats of automation, outsourcing and other new forms of employment that are putting workers’ lives and communities’ livelihoods at risk.