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From east to west, dockers unions' unite behind ILWU in US Pacific negotiations
Union leaders from the US East Coast, Canada and international transport worker federations have joined negotiations between dockers and Pacific coast employers in a significant show of solidarity
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ITF delegation joins Felixstowe picket line as managers refuse to negotiate
Dockers on the picket line at the Port of Felixstowe, the UK’s largest container terminal, told a delegation from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) that management is offering a
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Victory for seafarers’ safety as Dutch court sides with unions on container lashing
Unions have secured an important victory in the campaign for seafarers’ safety this week as a Dutch court has ruled that ship managers, ship owners and charterers must honour a clause that prevents
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German dock workers gain international backing over inflation protection strikes
Maritime unions are mobilising support for German ITF affiliate ver.di as the union battles port companies for an inflation-proof pay deal covering 12,000 dock workers. Union leaders gathered in
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P&O Ferries sackings: unions trigger UN investigation over UK’s failure to enforce laws that protect workers
A number of unions and global union federations have written to the International Labour Organization (ILO — part of the UN) asking it to urgently intervene on behalf of the 800 seafarers who were
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Unions to DP World: call time on costly P&O mess, sack Hebblethwaite
Union leaders from across the globe have descended on the London offices of the Dubai-based owner of P&O Ferries, DP World. More than 50 leaders from transport unions assembled to condemn the company
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P&O Ferries: Port of Dover refuses welfare check
Officials at the Port of Dover yesterday refused access to ITF Inspectors who were present in order to investigate welfare issues that had been raised by replacement crew members on board P&O Ferries’
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ITF urges port safety inquiry after worker falls to death in Auckland
ITF President and ITF Dockers’ Section chair, Paddy Crumlin, today expressed condolences on behalf of the global union federation and its hundreds of dockers’ affiliates, to the family and workmates