12 Feb 2010 - 24 Jun 2010
GTI Mumbai Solidarity
GTI Mumbai Solidarity Campaign
UPDATE
24 Jun 2010: Thanks for your solidarity support for port drivers working for Maersk’s GTI terminal in Mumbai, India; the Transport and Dock Workers’ Union representing the workers today signed a collective agreement with Allcargo, one of GTI’s contractors.
For more read: ITF News Online - 24 June 2010: Collective agreement for dock workers in India sets benchmark for all contractors
Fight for union rights and an end to violence at GTI Mumbai
The ITF-affiliated Transport and Dock Workers Union (TDWU) has faced extraordinary repression and violence after the union successfully organised the majority of truck trailer drivers employed by contractors and subcontractors at Gateway Terminals India, a Maersk-owned company.
In the last two years, TDWU members and their officials have been thwarted in their attempts to achieve collective agreements and have faced serious intimidation and violent attacks in their continued struggle to exercise their trade union rights of freedom of association and to collectively bargain.
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The company has claimed publicly that the October beatings were the result of a drunken quarrel between private individuals. The ITF commissioned and has now received an independent report which has shown this to be untrue. The ITF believes the incident has demonstrated that GTI – which is 70 per cent owned by Maersk – has not taken seriously the commitments it has made to workers’ rights.
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