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Where’s your pension money going? Workers’ capital explained
This week members of the global unions Committee on Workers’ Capital (CWC) met at the ITF in London. The committee is a joint initiative of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the Trade Union Advisory Committee of the OECD (TUAC) and the Global Union Federations (GUFs).
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Estonian dockers to picket management building in fight for voice at work
“We’re going to be picketing in front of the offices of Port of Muuga management in Tallinn calling for union recognition for dockers. We want the community-local and global-to support us!”
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Arab World APMT unions forge common strategy
Twenty delegates from ITF-affiliated unions representing workers at APM Terminals in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Oman met in Aqaba, Jordan this week to agree on minimum standards for the region's terminals.
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ITF reveals MLC experiences to International Shipping Conference
ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) maritime coordinator Jacqueline Smith will reveal the organisation’s experience of the Maritime Labour Convention’s second year in operation, in a speech at the International Shipping Conference tonight in London.
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Global conference puts workers’ capital in spotlight
A global conference looking at the issues, implications and next steps around the workers’ capital agenda is being hosted by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) this week.
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Global campaign launched to end sackings and union busting at Polish port
A global campaign is being launched in support of Maciek Konopka and his colleagues at Deepwater Container Terminal (DCT) Gdansk as union-busting activity by management reaches new heights.
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Agreement with port management ends Mumbai hunger strike
A hunger strike at Gateway Terminals India (GTI) Mumbai that lasted for 17 days has come to an end after management of port operator APM Terminals (APMT) agreed to address union demands over a group of operations and maintenance staff.
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Joint ETF-ITF press release: Europe's dockworkers' unions brace for overcapacity in container transportation
On August 26 and 27 dockworkers’ unions in the ‘Hamburg-Le Havre Range’ (comprising all major seaports in Germany, Netherlands, France, United Kingdom and Belgium) will meet in Rotterdam to discuss the threats of overcapacity and on-going automation of terminals. They will also examine the expansion of global terminal operator DP World in Europe.
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Credit to union power as Aden Port reopens
ITF affiliated union, the Labour Committee for Aden Container Terminal, has announced the reopening of Aden port.
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Global campaign launched as waste crisis causes growing health risk at Port of Beirut
“We will not accept our port becoming the capital’s dumping ground.”
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ITF challenges HPH over Australia and Indonesia worker treatment
The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) is challenging Hutchison Ports Holdings (HPH) over its behaviour at port facilities in Indonesia and Australia.
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Polish dockers protest in bid for ‘life with dignity’
Dock workers in Poland staged a protest last Tuesday (21 July) in their ongoing struggle for freedom of association and collective bargaining rights at the Port of Gdansk.
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