The ITF and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has written to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) director general asking him to urgently intervene in the case of seven Thai rail union leaders.
The Global union federations, the International Transport Workers’ Federation ‘ITF’ and UNI Global Union ‘UNI’ and Deutsche Post DHL Group ‘DPDHL’ worked towards building a constructive and solution-oriented approach during 2018 by following the agreed procedure of the OECD protocol first established in July 2016.
The ITF Dockers’ Section Occupational Safety and Health Working Group launched its work program last Thursday in Hong Kong, coming together with global terminal operators, regulators, academics, and the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health for a roundtable discussion on the uneven safety performance in global container operations.
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is astonished and disappointed to read in the media of the Panama Canal Authority’s (ACP) aggressive and negative reaction to the launch of the independent study commissioned by the ITF that assessed the serious health and safety risks related to the fatigue of tugboat captains in the new Neopanamax locks.
The Seafarers’ Union of Kenya (SUK) and the ITF have helped recruit new seafarers in line with a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the government of Kenya and the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC).
Today the ITF Dockers’ Section Occupational Safety and Health Working Group agreed to launch an aggressive action plan to improve the safety and health of the world’s port workers.