Updates from around the globe on the ITF’s work to build a fairer, safer and more just world for seafarers. Our news section covers issues affecting all seafarers, wherever they may be, and what we’re doing to improve seafarers’ lives and jobs, now and in the future.
The reclaiming lashing campaign is run by member unions of the ITF and its European arm the ETF, and is supported by the two federations.
Member states at the UNCSW61 (13-24 March) are currently negotiating the agreed conclusions on the priority theme, ‘Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work’.
ITF president & chair of the dockers’ section Paddy Crumlin said: “This just shows the power of the dockers in Spain and I congratulate them for making the government back down.
The last group of five Indian seafarers left the ship last week en route to Mumbai.
Unions are being asked to participate in the ITF’s equality testing in transport research, and to help fight for the proposed International Labour Organization (ILO) convention on violence and hara
She continued: “Today also provides the opportunity to carry forward and report on two ITF initiatives: the launch of our Equality Testing in Transport Research, and the campaign for an ILO convent
The seminar was part of the ITF’s global initiative to introduce modules on HIV/AIDS and wellbeing issues for maritime students.
“These workers were sacked for fighting for better wages and against dangerous conditions.
The Malaviya 20 is one of two Indian-owned and -flagged vessels that were effectively abandoned by their owners after they were detained in Aberdeen and Great Yarmouth.
More than 400 seafarers and 100 cadets from the Myanmar Maritime University – most of them not union members – participated in the first of what will become an annual event.
They used the event to plan how they could become more powerful through increased membership and the promotion of collective bargaining agreements (CBAs).
That’s the verdict on the ITF Arab World regional conference in Tunisia that came to a close on Friday.
255 participants represented 33 unions from 12 countries.
