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Strike wrests job security guarantees from postal giant
Postal workers in Germany have wrung job security and improved pay guarantees from delivery giant Deutsche Post-DHL. Their win follows an indefinite strike that was keenly supported by ITF affiliates worldwide (see http://goo.gl/WKDTKo)
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Arab World oil supply chain unions forge alliances for workers’ power
Unions representing workers along the oil supply chain in the Arab World have agreed strategies to work together more closely in order to increase workers’ power in Algeria and Iraq.
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First hub office opens in Humber to build union organising
Activists trained by the ITF and its affiliate Unite the Union have succeeded in setting up a hub office within Immingham Port – one of four major ports on the UK’s Humber river, Europe’s eighth largest port complex – to organise and forge alliances across job sectors.
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Secret trade pact set to rob from the poor - and give to global transport firms
Classified documents published today by Wikileaks on the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) foresee consolidated power for big transport industry players – and threaten the public interest, jobs and a voice for workers, says the International Transport Workers’ Federation.
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ITF comment on Doha container death
Commenting on last week’s death of a driver crushed by a container reportedly falling from a lorry exiting Doha port, ITF president Paddy Crumlin said: “Injuries associated with containers are all too common. They can occur throughout the supply chain –on ships, in ports, on road and rail. There is a deep and constant need for oversight, care and regulation.”
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Protesting DP-DHL workers receive worldwide support
Six thousand Deutsche Post-DHL workers who put the company on trial today at its annual general meeting in Frankfurt, Germany, were buoyed up by support from DHL unions around the world.
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Shareholders must urge Deutsche Post-DHL to scrap plans to cut German parcel workers’ wages
Frankfurt, 27 May: UNI Global Union and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) are calling on shareholders attending today’s Deutsche Post-DHL AGM to warn management to reverse its decision to slash parcel workers’ wages and take away their rights.
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Deutsche Post-DHL brings race to the bottom home to Germany
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and UNI Global Union today condemned as cynical Deutsche Post-DHL’s move to drastically cut the pay of its parcel delivery workers in Germany.
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Perth protest rally targets oil and gas giant Chevron’s New Zealand operation
A large and noisy rally targeting offshore hydrocarbon corporation Chevron has taken place outside the New Zealand consulate in Perth this morning.
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ITF unions act on container safety on Workers’ Memorial Day
Remember the dead, fight like hell for the living. That’s the slogan for International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD) and it was taken to heart by ITF unions this week when they took action around toxic gases and fumigation in containers.
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Unions deliver worker’s message to Agility customer
ITF and Unite members delivered a personal message from Agility Kenya worker Ruth Matahi today direct to shareholders of one of the company’s major customers. They shared the message – an eyewitness account of the tactics being used by managers of the logistics multinational’s Kenyan branch – at the AGM of BAT (British American Tobacco) in London this morning.
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Supporters take Kenya concerns to London AGM
Members of the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) and Unite the Union will take their concerns about attacks against Kenyan logistics workers to the attention of BAT (British American Tobacco) shareholders in London today.
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