The recommendations, which now go through the ILO for discussion before implementation, would bring seafarers’ identity documents in line with e-passports.
Negotiations had been underway since June last year in what had become an increasingly bitter dispute.
The PMA earlier this week ratcheted up their side of the bargaining by banning loading and unloading on nights, weekends and holidays.
ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) general secretary Steve Cotton explained: “Unions and employers meeting at the ILO have upheld the general right to strike.
Union resistance to a plan by employers to remove the right reached a peak during an international action day on Feb 18th
Submissions have been made from across the industry, including from the AMO, MM&P, MEBA and SIU trade unions, the Chamber of Shipping of America and the seafarers’ welfare organisations.
ITF representatives, government officials, international development partners, industry players, maritime workers’ unions, embassy representatives and members of the public made up the 430 delegates from 12 countries who took part in the two-day conference on the theme ‘from land to sea: new fron
And now the search is on for attendees for this year’s summer school, being held in July in Washington, which will specifically focus on young workers, those under the age of 35.
Using Joint ITF/ISF Interpretation of the ILO Recommended Minimum Wage for an AB - extrapolated on basis of
Rates applicable from 1st January 2021
Trust funding enabled the MPHRP to make a significant contribution to the welfare support of seafarers, and their families caught up in and affected by such attacks.
More than 1,000 workers are stranded on Barrow Island, off the north-west coast of Australia, after the Chevron stuffed up plans to evacuate its workforce ahead of the arrival of the Category Three Cyclone.
