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"We leave 2018 with a high level of optimism that we can make the next year our most successful yet" - watch ITF general secretary Stephen Cotton's new year message for 2019

Australian seafarers are continuing their fight to secure jobs in their coastal waters, after a delegation visited Canada to examine and learn from their shipping laws which protect seafarers’ jobs and wages in Canada.

XPO has now announced policy changes for employees in the United States – but these changes do not go far enough.

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.

A year after Ryanair announced it would recognise unions, the company still has a long way to go before it can be considered a fair employer.

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.

On 3 December 2018, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) convened the 100th session of Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) – first held in 1948.

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).