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10 Jul 2014
International Day of the Seafarer 2013
The ITF and its affiliates are celebrating the International Day of the Seafarer today, Tuesday 25 June. Called by the International Maritime Organization, the day...
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03 Jul 2014
Press Release
PALEA secures reinstatement agreement
The ITF today applauded the determination of a Philippines union – and the international solidarity which helped sustain it – that has led to the re-employment...
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03 Jul 2014
Press Release
ITF corrects Paraguayan media report errors
ITF Americas regional secretary Antonio Fritz has spoken out to correct a number of erroneous and unchecked reports in the Paraguayan media. These attack the...
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03 Jul 2014
Tunisian ITF unions call strike in face of workers’ rights abuses
Transport sector workers in Tunisia have called a one-day strike on 12 December 2013 in response to the continuing erosion of workers’ rights. ITF affiliates...
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03 Jul 2014
Press Release
ITF Seafarers’ Trust awards GBP100,000 to help Filipino seafarers
The ITF Seafarers’ Trust – the charity arm of the International Transport Workers” Federation – today authorised two grants totalling GBP100,000 to aid...
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03 Jul 2014
Press Release
ITF moves to arrest vessel Isis at Tilbury
The ITF has initiated arrest proceedings on behalf of the crew of the Marshall Islands-flagged M/S Isis, which is moored at Tilbury, England and whose crew are owed...
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03 Jul 2014
Delegation takes union rights protest to Swiss heartland
A forty-strong international delegation took its protest over a lack of labour rights direct to the Swiss heartland today, when it put a global company...
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03 Jul 2014
Success for first seminar on putting Mexico City policy into practice
Delegates gathered in London this month for the first seminar on ITF Mexico City policy implementation. Twenty-six union leaders and staff from ITF seafarers’...