David Cockroft has been the general secretary for the ITF since 1994. Since then he has been re-elected by every successive ITF congress. His job is to oversee the day to day running of the ITF and to ensure the implementation of decisions taken by the ITF’s governing bodies. This is his blog.
We had the pleasure this week of welcoming a great friend of the ITF to our office in London. In a distinguished trade union career Alicia Castro has had many roles.
This week I am in Sydney for the quadrennial conference of the Maritime Union of Australia. It’s a truly international event, with familiar faces from the ITF family on every side – not just from the Pacific but beyond too.
We were pleased to invite over 40 of the great and the good from the world’s shipping industry to ITF House this week, and to listen to the newly elected secretary general of the IMO outlining his vision for the organisation.
Israel’s Histadrut labour federation has ended a four day general strike with an announcement that it has achieved a real difference for contract workers.
