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North American dockers receive international support in their ongoing fight for racial justice
A week after ILA and ILWU dockers shut down ports on the east and west coasts of the United States in solidarity with George Floyd and countless other victims of...
ITF statement on complaint filed with European Commission by shortsea and feeder ship operators
Via the press the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) [and its affiliates] has heard about a complaint filed with the European Commission’s...
Peruvian dockers win action on Covid-19, PPE
Dock workers at APM Terminals Callao in Peru have succeeded with reaching an agreement with the company and the authorities for Covid-19 coronavirus testing and...
400,000 dockers stand with Seward, Alaska in condemning Possehl Erzkontor and Alaska Logistics
The ITF Dockers, representing 400,000 dock workers worldwide, stand in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in Seward, Alaska, represented by International...
ILA, ILWU dockers stop work to honour George Floyd, call for racial justice
Today thousands of American transport workers from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) are...
Canadian dockers honour lost second officer of Maersk Patras
This week marks a year since Ravindu Telge, 2nd Officer of the Maersk Patras, fell overboard while lashing underway along the Saint Lawrence Seaway, in Quebec,...
Women transport workers’ rights and COVID-19
Transport workers together for a gender equal new normal The transport industry is highly gendered, and whilst all transport workers are being severely impacted by...
Podcast: Covid-19 and the ILO
In a fourth special show about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on working people, ITF legal director Ruwan Subasinghe has spoken to Maria Helena Andre, director...