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Brazilian seafarers’ unions affiliated to the huge CONTTMAF (Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Transportes Aquaviários e Aéreos, na Pesca e nos Portos) union federation have voted to take industrial action that will impact all vessels – both tankers and offshore – owned and operated by T

According to WUSI the workers were fired in retaliation for WUSI applying for union recognition at SIPA.

The visit was part of a commitment from the ITF to building industrial solidarity and effective responses to the challenges faced by transport workers in the region.

The delegates, from Australia, UK, Canada and South Africa, met drivers at the ITF Palestinian truck drivers’ project at the Irtah crossing between Palestine and Israel.

On 4 May 2016, Brazilian seafarers’ unions affiliated to the huge CONTTMAF (Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Transportes Aquaviários e Aéreos, na Pesca e nos Portos) federation voted to take industrial action that will impact vessels operated by Transpetro, a subsidiary of Petrobra

The court acted after the seafarers’ confederation, CONTTMAF, alerted it to threats to crew and anti-union actions by oil carrier Transpetro aimed at  breaking the strike, and after the company tried and failed to block the legal strike action.

The strike was over health and safety standards and discriminatory practices that potentially undermined the national flag identity of Brazil’s offshore and cabotage fleet.

In both the oil-service sector and within the subsea-contractor segment there are still companies that are not covered by collective bargaining agreements, something the North Sea oil and gas supply chain and hubs group intends to address.

Transport workers are often the hidden workforce in global supply chains. They experience serious abuses of their rights and working conditions, yet everyone depends on them for the movement of every bit of cargo along the chain.