The ITF's Asia Pacific Women's Conference concluded Sunday 12th May in Hong Kong, with a call to support the ITF Women's Committee campaign to end violence against women in the workplace and at home.
The ITF Africa regional conference, which will take place from 23-27 September in Addis Ababa, is ITF Africa’s largest meeting. During the conference there will be an opportunity for delegates to debate and discuss priority areas for Africa’s transport workers.
ITF seafarers’section chair Dave Heindel has echoed the Global Unions’ call to the G8 meeting to put fairness at the heart of their economies and added a plea for the same principles to be applied to the maritime world.
The ITF and the ITF Seafarers’ Trust have donated a total of GBP10,000 (USD15,000) at a fundraising event for an African maritime charity where support also came in the shape of a 17-strong ITF/Seafarers’ Trust team.
A LabourStart fundraising event organised through Facebook in London on 4 May to celebrate International Workers Day gave the ITF an opportunity to thank the organisation for mobilising global support for trade union campaigns.
The ETF and several of its affiliates joined two other European union federations and the ETUC to urge the eradication of discrimination and abuses of social rights among posted workers.
Sixty seven inspections in one week in designated ports in Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Philippines led to notices of warnings being issued to errant companies and unpaid wage claims.
For Joseph Katende, ITF Africa regional secretary, the chance to visit the Tolpuddle Martyrs festival in Dorset, UK fulfilled a long-held dream.
The chair of the International Transport Workers’ Federation’s offshore task force group today condemned the Australian government’s move to override a Senate vote and allow the use of a maritime crew visa that will undermine working conditions in the country’s offshore oil and gas industry.
