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.
ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) general secretary Steve Cotton explained: “Unions and employers meeting at the ILO have upheld the general right to strike.
Negotiations had been underway since June last year in what had become an increasingly bitter dispute.
The recommendations, which now go through the ILO for discussion before implementation, would bring seafarers’ identity documents in line with e-passports.
Under the slogan ‘Sometimes you have to say NO!: hands off our right to strike’ the campaign kicked off with an international action day o
These attacks come at a time when employers and governments implement austerity measures, the growth of precarious jobs is rampant and social protests are criminalized, with the intent to silence w
The MLC requires member states to ensure that seafarers have access to shore-based facilities and services to secure their health and well-being, and recommends that they set up welfare boards to e
At the ILO in Geneva a tripartite meeting of employers, trade unions and governments agreed a common approach to improving ILO Convention 185 on seafarers’ identity documents, in order to improve t
The seminar, at the end of January, was the first meeting for rank and file seafarers, and was organised by the ITF in conjunction with local partners in the labour and transport sectors.
This week, Chevron reported to its shareholders that the multi-billion dollar gas project was “just fine”.
The survey has been devised by the ITF, Seamen's Hospital Society, International Maritime Health Association and International Seafarers' Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN), and is available th
The teams will check and enforce decent pay and working conditions onboard vessels.
On Sunday the vessel Alsvin loaded containers at RWG, in what was believed to be a test operation. It then moved to the ECT terminal in Rotterdam to discharge them.
