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International clothing company Levi Strauss and Co. is under pressure to help end the exploitation of Madagascan dockworkers as the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) calls on the company to stop the labour rights double standard.

Security agents, handling agents and ground and cabin crew in the Netherlands were in action on 5 April alongside their union the FNV to demand ‘real jobs’ from Schiphol Airport.

The ITF unions involved in the IKEA campaign have launched a video which documents the story of Lucian, a Romanian driver living out of his cabin for weeks and months on end while driving around Western Europe and working for IKEA.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is calling for truck drivers to continue coming forward with accounts of exploitation while moving goods for IKEA, as it launches a new film about the issue.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) Cabotage Taskforce has condemned as ‘unbelivable’ fines requested by Australia’s Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) against crew members of the MV Portland.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) Cabotage Taskforce, which is meeting in Oslo, Norway, today applauded the United States Department of Justice’s announcement that the company Furie Operating Alaska LLC has agreed to pay USD10 million ‘to satisfy a civil penalty originally assessed against it by US Customs and Border Protection for violating the Jones Act,’ America’s freight cabotage law.

The first network of HIV-positive seafarers has been launched in the Philippines, with technical and financial support from the ITF and its union AMOSUP.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) Cabotage Taskforce, which consists of unions from Canada, Norway, Brazil, Greece, Russia, Ukraine, USA, Nigeria, Australia, the Philippines and India, today blasted Australia’s Productivity Commission as entirely missing the point of having a national shipping fleet.