All content tagged with: "health and safety"
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26 May 2023
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Death-trap trawler crew must be paid and allowed to go home, ITF says
Fishers on a 50-year-old trawler should not be made to go back to sea, even to sail to a repair yard, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is...
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28 Apr 2023
Organising for safer workplaces this International Workers’ Memorial Day
Unions remember workers lost to negligent employers and safety standards Today, the 28th of April, marks International Workers’ Memorial Day, when trade unions...
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05 Apr 2023
Seafarers, fishers to benefit from new medical guide onboard thanks to shipowners and unions
“Crew are often hundreds of miles from shore when illness, accident or injury takes place onboard – leaving them without internet and dangerously far from the...
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22 Mar 2023
Press Release
ITF delivers justice for Yangtze Fortune crew abandoned off Australian coast – seafarers repaid missing wages and repatriated home
Seafarers stranded aboard a livestock carrier vessel abandoned off the Australian coast have finally been repaid their missing wages and repatriated home with the...
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11 Feb 2023
Two years on, heartache remains but lessons still to be learned from Ingenika tug tragedy
Two years on from the sinking of the Ingenika and tragic loss of two of the mariners onboard, cost pressures are still putting tug crews’ lives in danger, the...
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01 Jul 2022
Press Release
ITF rallies behind Aqaba families, strikers after chlorine horror kills 13, injures 250
The ITF Seafarers’ Trust has made a USD $55,000 emergency grant to enable local unions to help the families of those who have died or are in a serious condition,...
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23 Jun 2022
Press Release
Hope Hicks case not an isolated incident, shows need for practical change in shipping
Responding to news that Hope Hicks has taken a case against shipping giant Maersk, seafarers’ unions are calling for employers to ensure their safe workplace...
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28 Apr 2022
Seafarers' unions remember Hadisur Rahman, killed in Russia-Ukraine crossfire
Today we mark International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD). A day when we mourn for those who have been killed at work - taken from their friends, families and...
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27 Apr 2022
'Too many killed on the job': ITF mourns the transport workers who died at work for #IWMD2022
Today we mark International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD). A day when we mourn for those who have been killed at work - taken from their friends, families and...
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08 Feb 2022
Press Release
Turkish authorities’ seven-month delay in Ukrainian seafarers’ drug import case ‘totally unacceptable’: ITF
Seafarers’ unions are extremely concerned that four Ukrainian nationals have now been detained without charge by Turkish authorities for more than seven months....