Around 300 activists met in Cape Town, South Africa, 5 and 6 June 2017, for the ITF union-led dockers' and seafarers' section conferences.
It comes in the wake of double murder findings by the NSW Coroner investigating the deaths of two foreign seafarers aboard the (FOC) MV Sage Sagittarius in Australian waters in 2012. A third crew member was found dead in the vessel’s coal loader when it arrived in Japan.
He told the conference that the ITF was deeply involved in the ILC’s critical themes – green jobs, labour migration, fundamental principles and rights at work, and the transition to peace.
More than one million sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are acquired every day worldwide.
The announcements came during the ETF congress from 24-26 May in Barcelona. Frank Moreels is chair of Belgian transport union BTB, vice president of the ITF road section and has been an active member of the ETF for many years. Mr Chagas has been ETF general secretary since May 2005.
The two-day seminar, from 14-15 June, was held in Nizhny Novgorod and hosted by the rail union’s branch in the city. It was chaired by Nikolay Nikiforov, chair ofthe Russian Trade Union of Railwaymen and Transport Construction Workers of Russia (ROSPROFZHEL).
Organized by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and Seafarers’ Rights International (SRI), this was the first international workshop to promote the Guidelines on fair treatment of seafarers in the event of a maritime accident and to discuss guidance on the implementation of tho
The unions, from every region of the world, are in the frontline of the ITF’s work to ensure a just transition for workers by shaping new ways of working, such as automation and platform working.
Paul Falzon, ITF contact in Malta, has been helping the crew on a daily basis since 13 May, when they responded to ITF calls. The ITF had been offering help for weeks after hearing from Malta that there was a ship outside its national waters whose crew felt threatened by the company.
The ITF has used its global reach to coordinate a successful effort to support a crew left stranded in the port of Aden, in conflict-ridden Yemen.
