The ITF-supported event, Union Week - New Generation, is the fourth awareness-raising seminar hosted by MTWTU in four years in Odessa, Ukraine, which attracted over 150 Ukrainian acting and future seafarers.
An ITF delegation has met with New Zealand’s ministers of transport and labour, as well as the Auckland’s Mayor and city council, to voice first-hand the impact that automation poses to livelihoods of workers, their communities and the national and local economies.
The ITF 'Non-Seafarers' Work Clause' (NSWC) comes into force in Canada and Europe today. A lot has been said about the Clause, but it’s worth reviewing exactly what the NSWC is and what it means to ITF affiliated dockers’ unions.
Let’s start from the beginning:
The ITF has represented the views of global maritime professionals at the 20th general assembly of the International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU) in Tokyo, Japan, 30 October to 2 November 2019.
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 impleme
The ITF has come to the rescue of 10 Kenyan seafarers who had travelled to Pemba, Mozambique through Tanzania in August 2019, to work on an EU-bound vessel, MV Nina.
Stephen Cotton, general secretary of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) will also be available for interview at Davos 2020 - the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.
A resolution drafted by the ITF, the Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA In
The ITF is closely following all advice from the World Health Organisation (WHO) regarding the current outbreak which originated in Wuhan city, a major domestic and international transport hub.
The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) have launched a petition calling on the Australian government to
