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Dockers and seafarers trade union delegates from around the world will meet in Cape Town, South Africa next week for the ITF Dockers’ Section and ITF Seafarers’ Section conferences. The events will run concurrently from 5-6 June. A dedicated cabotage conference will be held on 4 June.

The ITF has produced a ‘living document’ to help its civil aviation unions keep up to speed with the constant changes in remote towers technology.

The ITF and local Madagascan union SYGMMA have urged international garment manufacturer Esprit to join with Levi Straus & Co and help end the exploitation of Madagascan dockers.

Automated road freight will save costs, reduce emissions, make roads safer. But the impact on driver jobs requires a managed transition, says study.

Esprit, a major international garment manufacturer, using the Port of Toamasina (Tamatave) in Madagascar is facing pressure to join with Levi Straus & Co and help end the exploitation of Madagascan dockworkers.

The seafarers section of the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) has made the following statement:

Transport unions from across Europe are meeting in Barcelona this week for the ETF (European Transport Workers’ Federation) congress.

Campaigners from several ITF unions made sure the views of workers were heard by public transport employers at an international meeting in Montreal, Canada.

Commenting on the adoption of the royal decree to ‘reform’ port labour that has just been adopted by the Spanish parliament (with 174 votes in favour, 165 against and eight abstentions), International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) president and dockers’ section chair, Paddy Crumlin, stated:

What: Automation has the potential to make trucking greener and safer, but also to cost jobs. This report: * spells out scenarios for how the transition could happen * contains numbers on potential job losses * makes recommendations to governments how to prepare