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Twenty years of the Seafarers’ Bulletin
6 July 2006
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The ITF is this year celebrating 20 years of the Seafarers’ Bulletin, the federation’s designated magazine for frontline workers in the maritime industry. The publication goes out to some quarter of a million seafarers and is published in 11 languages.
First produced in 1986, the magazine aims to provide seafarers not only with practical help, but also with information about the global union movement.
Since its inception it has covered a variety of topics, including the ITF’s flag of convenience campaign, and offered advice covering a range of issues such as what to do if you’re an abandoned seafarer and keeping fit on board. It also lists inspectors’ details, refers seafarers to useful websites and provides them with a forum for expressing their own views.
“Over the past 20 years, the bulletin has evolved into a seafarer’s introductory guide to the global union movement. It’s a powerful way of getting out the ITF’s campaigning messages and providing seafarers with information about how the global union movement can help them. But it also has a practical role - it contains information to make everyday life on board ship easier for seafarers in what can often be a harsh working environment,” commented ITF General Secretary David Cockroft.
The ITF is currently carrying out a readers’ survey – to participate visit: http://www.itfglobal.org/seafarers/sfb.cfm/formbuilder/22/p/1
For more information about how to obtain the bulletin go to: http://www.itfglobal.org/infocentre/pubs.cfm/detail/2210
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