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Across the world ITF unions will mark the day with activities including voluntary counselling and testing events, and prevention education.
Just one of the reactions to promotion of the ITF industrial hubs programme during the sectoral conferences of UK affiliate Unite the Union this week.
Luca Tommasi, Seafarers’ Trust Project Manager explained: “The idea of the original app was to transform the ISWAN seafarers’ centres directory into an interactive app that could be used offline.
.The ITF cabotage taskforce was launched last month to support cabotage protection laws that help maintain nations’ skills, shipping and security, and to challenge the threat of liberalisation pose
It has been 103 days since 97 workers were terminated in Brisbane and Sydney, many via text and email. It was strongly felt that the company was using automation plans as a union busting tool.
Al-Sharif, leader of the ITF-affiliated Dockers and Seafarers Union of Libya, was shot at on 8 November while driving.
Some 8,500 AMOSUP members and their families, along with other unions, social partners and international guests, enjoyed the day-long celebration at the Mall of Asia MOA grounds.
The ITF – which represents 4.7 million transport workers worldwide – has expressed its concern that Alcoa was trying to exploit local laws and circumvent workers’ rights, and that the company was a
Nermin Al-Sharif, leader of the ITF-affiliated Dockers’ and Seafarers’ Union of Libya, was driving a car near Benghazi that crashed after it was followed by two other cars and shot at.
ITF general secretary Steve Cotton congratulated her on behalf of the federation.
Cabotage is in place in some form in 47 countries.
Paddy Crumlin, ITF President welcomed today’s decision and said Chevron needed to come clean and pay its fair share of taxes.
