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The ITF's Dockers' Section supports affiliated dock workers' unions in defending the interests of their members. More >>

Container Cargo Safety
The ITF Road Transport Workers' Section and ITF Dockers' Section are coordinating their activities on this issue.

March 2010 Dockers' Meetings

Dockers' Section Focus Meeting, Berlin 15 March (am)
Dockers' Section Committee, Berlin, 15 March (pm) & 16 March
Fair Practice Committee - Steering Group, Berlin 17 March
Fair Practice Committee, Berlin, 18 - 19 March

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News online

04 Feb 2010
Call for solidarity for Costa Rican dockers
The ITF has urged affiliates to back dockers in Costa Rica who are facing anti-union repression at the hands of the government. The ITF this week called on unions to protest against attempts by the Costa Rican government to quash the...

03 Feb 2010
ITF condemns lockout of US mineworkers
The ITF yesterday denounced a lockout in the US instigated by a multinational mining company, affecting nearly 600 mineworkers. The 570 miners, members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), were locked out of a borax mine in...
 

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Press releases

02 Feb 2010
Costa Rican govt warned over trade union abuses (También en version española)
TitleGlobal union federation the ITF today called on its 751 member unions worldwide – including 214 dockworkers’ unions – to protest at mistreatment of trade unionists in Costa Rica. The call comes in support of the ITF affiliated SINTRAJAP...

17 Nov 2009
Møller-Maersk told ‘act now’ on Indian violence
Global union federation the ITF has put shipping and port giant Møller-Maersk on notice that it has to get rid of one of its contractors which has allegedly repeatedly attacked port drivers in Mumbai, India. Despite intense negotiations between the...
 

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Container Cargo Safety
Information on container cargo safety

Statement on ILO Convention 137
We are writing to ask all IT affiliated Dockers unions to support the FNV Bondgenoten Netherlands in their campaign against the Dutch governments plans to de-ratify (denounce) ILO Convention 137.

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