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The ITF Dockers, representing 400,000 dock workers worldwide, stand in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in Seward, Alaska, represented by International Longshore and Warehouse Workers Union

A campaign from the Marine Transport Workers’ Trade Union of Ukraine (MTWTU), supported by the ITF and the International Maritime Employers’ Council (IMEC), is highlighting the key role of maritime

The ITF and the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) have jointly written an open letter to the United Nations agencies for the global maritime industry calling on them to recognise the vital role

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) today call upon ship operators to return lashing to shore based dock workers. On February 11

This article originally appeared in In These Times. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is facing an existential crisis. Founded by the militant labor icon Harry Bridges, the ILWU

Dockers unions, shop stewards and legal advisors from ten countries gathered in Rotterdam yesterday and pledged to take action to ensure that the new “Dockers’ Clause” is correctly implemented

It’s a new decade in an ever-changing world, but one thing remains constant: dockers have never shied away from a fight — and faced with the fight to reclaim lashing jurisdiction, ITF affiliated dockers’ unions are launching into 2020 by fighting from the front.

Unions globally are uniting to demand that Hutchison Ports do everything within its powers to set the record straight and facilitate the immediate release of jailed Indonesian trade unionist Rio Wijaya.

The ITF has continued its cooperation with the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with a high-level meeting in Dubai. ITF general secretary Stephen Cotton, president Paddy Crumlin and Arab

ILWU Canada pledged solidarity last week to fellow dockers in Montreal with a gesture unmistakeable in its strength: a raised fist of support from workers fresh off a gruelling bargaining campaign, to