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Subcontracted workers at the Port of Hong Kong have now been passed their 28th day on strike as they fight to secure acceptable working conditions and pay parity with directly employed staff. Members of the Union of Hong Kong (UHKD) dockers have been picketing at Kwai Chung terminal in a bid to

The leaders of the Council of Global Unions – which brings together 11 global union federations, including the ITF, and represents hundreds of millions of workers worldwide – have today written to the Turkish prime minister to demand that he acts to calm the current violence against protestors by

The ITF and several other organisations are sponsoring a new charity event on 12-15 July to benefit seafarers in the United States. The inaugural 2013 Poker Run event will be for Apostleship of the Sea (AOS) and its International Seafarers Center based in Beaumont, Texas. The centre serves the

The 8th ITF Asia-Pacific regional conference passed a resolution to reiterate its support and solidarity with the Philippine Airlines Employees' Association (PALEA), which has been fighting a Philippine Airlines (PAL) outsourcing plan that saw 2,400 check-in, baggage, catering and technical workers

The ITF and its maritime affiliates will be supporting this year's ‘Day of the Seafarer' on 25 June. Under the theme of ‘Faces of the Sea’, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) day aims to spotlight the human face of shipping and the sacrifices that seafarers make to provide the vital

Trade unions in some 100 countries are planning rallies, protests, educational activities and other events to commemorate Workers’ Memorial Day on 28 April. Workers’ Memorial Day will be commemorated in Burma for the first time after 50 years of suppression of freedom of association, following the

Dockers in the Georgian port of Batumi have agreed a number of improved conditions for workers after management came to the table for good faith negotiations following union strike action. ITF affiliate, the Georgian Seafarers’ Union, has been supporting industrial action by port workers after a

As part of the ITF/SASK road transport corridors project for 2013-2015, the ITF sub-regional office for Francophone Africa and the ECOWAS countries and its road transport affiliates in Burkina Faso held a three-day workshop on their strategic campaign for the implementation of a sectoral collective

ITF affiliate Turkish Civil Aviation Unions (Hava-İş) has announced strike action in May at every company owned by Turkish Airlines (THY), following the alleged refusal by the company to enter dialogue about the reinstatement of 305 workers sacked when they protested against a proposed strike ban

ITF Australia coordinator Dean Summers has warned of potential environmental damage in Melbourne, Australia due to an unsafe vessel inspected in the port. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority found that the Greek-operated, Indonesian-owned Sat Nunki was too unclean to carry grain, as its hatches