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The Section Committee is elected at Congress and consists of Section Officers, regional representatives, 16 committee members elected by the Section as a whole, and a Women's Representative. The current committee is:

Elected at the Dockers' Section Conference, 5 August 2006 at the 41st Congress in Durban, 2-9 August 2006

Chair:
Paddy Crumlin (MUA, Australia)

1st Vice-Chair:
Lars Lindgren (Svenska Transportarbetareförbundet, Sweden)

2nd Vice-Chair:
John Bowers (ILA, USA)

Women's Representative:
Myriam Chaffart (ACV-TRANSCOM, Belgium)

Section Committee:
Gerald Owens (ILA, USA)
Tom Dufresne (ILWU, Canada)
Mike Gibbons (TGWU, Great Britain)
Marc Loridan (BTB, Belgium)
Niek Stam (FNV Bondgenoten, Netherlands)
Francesco Rivas (UGT, Spain)
Aleksejs Holodnuks (UTA, Latvia)
S El-Hairech (Union des Syndicats UMT des Transports, Morocco)
K Deakissim (SYNTRAPAL, Togo)
Veronica Mesatywa (SATAWU, South Africa)
Alvin Sinclair (BITU, Jamaica)
Jorge Cocchia (SEAMARA, Argentina)
Kenji Yasuda* (ZENKOKU-KOWAN, Japan)
  *retired,
   Sueichi Motoki (observer)

A. Hamzah (Singapore Port Workers' Union, Singapore)
Terry Ryan (WWU, New Zealand)
P M M Haneef (CPSA, India)

Regional Chairs (elected at regional meetings):

AFRICA
Kofi Afriye (Maritime and Dockworkers' Union of TUC, Ghana)

ASIA/PACIFIC
S.R Kulkarni (Transport & Dockworkers’ Union, India)

LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
Mayo Uruguaio Fernandes (CONTTMAF, Brazil )

EUROPE
Andreas Bergemann (Ver.di, Germany)

NORTH AMERICA
Robert McEllrath (International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), USA)





Related documents:
41C-15-DSC Report of the Dockers’ Section Conference (87kb PDF)

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