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The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) has successfully supported the crew in three ship abandonment cases in UK waters that show a culture close to modern day slavery in some parts of the shipping industry.

The ITF has deplored the inaction of the authorities and ship owner to end the two-year ordeal of the five remaining abandoned crew on board the Bahrain-flagged Bramco 1.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) says Australia's Turnbull Government can no longer ignore its national security responsibilities in the wake of damning findings today by the Senate Inquiry into Flag of Convenience (FOC) Shipping.

ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) unions representing Gate Gourmet workers are lobbying the company today in support of the company’s drivers and logistics workers in Argentina who are campaigning for recognition of the work they carry out. Currently the company treats them as food workers.

ITF unions representing Gate Gourmet workers are writing today to their local managers, to demonstrate support for the company’s drivers and logistics workers in Argentina as they step up their fight to be correctly recognised, instead of as food workers.

The ITF has called for a major overhaul of the Irish fishing industry to comply with national, European and international legal obligations, saying the government’s permit scheme to address exploitation of migrant fishers had instead ‘legalised slavery’.

Greenpeace and Thai Union have demonstrated that environmentalists and corporations can commit to working together to protect our oceans and the men and women who work on them. Transshipment at sea and unmonitored and unregulated fishing practices have led to the abuse of both our fishing stocks and the workers who bring those fish to our markets.

The ITF has contributed to a major civil society report on sustainable development launched on the first day of the United Nations’ High-Level Political Forum.

The ITF and JNG met in Tokyo on 4 and 5 July 2017 to continue discussions aimed at agreeing a new IBF Framework TCC Agreement following the opening round of discussions held in London in January 2017.