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‘Diverse in our work, united for change’ - inland navigation unions hold successful conference in Amsterdam
Unions representing more than 180,000 tug, towage, river cruise, other inland waterways and ferry workers globally met in Amsterdam this week for the Inland...
Bangladesh: global solidarity shines spotlight on 200,000 striking waterway workers
Over 200,000 river boat workers, the beating heart of Bangladesh’s critical inland waterways, have vowed to continue their campaign of industrial action until all...
Breakthrough on loss and damage, attempts to sideline labour standards
The global climate summit, COP27, concluded today with a breakthrough on the Global South’s decades-long call for a fund to pay for climate-related loss and...
Unions urge Maersk’s return to negotiating table as Australian court blocks controversial Svitzer tug lockout
Unions have welcomed a strong rebuke of Maersk-owned Svitzer Australia by the Fair Work Commission after the court blocked the company’s planned lockout of its...
Maersk’s Australian tug subsidiary abandons company’s global commitments to protect labour rights
After nearly four years of negotiations between three Australian unions and local Svitzer management, the tug subsidiary of global maritime and logistics behemoth...
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'Too many killed on the job': ITF mourns the transport workers who died at work for #IWMD2022
Today we mark International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD). A day when we mourn for those who have been killed at work - taken from their friends, families and...
Silent no more: overworked tugboat workers are reaching breaking point
29 March 2022, London / Brussels Last year, Troy Pearson and Charley Cragg died while towing a barge bound for a Rio Tinto power station in rough seas and strong,...