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news 25 Jun 2015

SRI and ITF release education videos on Day of the Seafarer

Seafarers’ Rights International (SRI) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) are marking the Day of the Seafarer by launching a series of short films to help seafarers understand their rights under the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC).

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news 22 Jun 2015

ITF slams Shipping Australia over dangerous comments on FOC shipping inquiry

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) is deeply concerned by comments from the body representing flag of convenience shipping interests in Australia.

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Video 19 Jun 2015

Fighting for better seas - the ITF's FOC campaign

The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is a global union body representing millions of transport workers worldwide. Maritime workers, their unions and the shipping industry know the ITF for its groundbreaking work to eliminate the exploitation of seafarers and for its flags of

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news 19 Jun 2015

Colombian court orders Avianca to pay cheated workers

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has ordered national airline Avianca to pay an unprecedented estimated USD2 million – and to pay it this week – to workers whom it cheated of pay and benefits over a decade in a long-term plan to prevent staff joining trade unions.

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news 18 Jun 2015

ITF welcomes Australian Senate inquiry into FOC shipping and condemns government attacks on cabotage

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has welcomed the Australian Senate’s decision to launch an inquiry into flag of convenience shipping.

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news 17 Jun 2015

St Lucia hosts union training connecting dockers worldwide

Dockworkers who are members of trade unions affiliated to the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) are in training in St Lucia this week on a new tool to assist them in bargaining, negotiating, campaigning and organising in their ports.

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news 17 Jun 2015

Colombian court orders Avianca to pay workers cheated by decade of anti-unionism

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has ordered the country’s national airline, Avianca, to pay an unprecedented sum estimated to be around USD2 million to workers whom it cheated of pay and benefits in a long term plan to prevent staff joining trade unions.

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Oil supply chain unions in Arab World form alliances

news 17 Jun 2015

Arab World oil supply chain unions forge alliances for workers’ power

Unions representing workers along the oil supply chain in the Arab World have agreed strategies to work together more closely in order to increase workers’ power in Algeria and Iraq.

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news 17 Jun 2015

Qatar guilty, says ILO

In a dramatic judgment today, the ILO (International Labour Organization) found Qatar guilty of allowing its state-owned airline, Qatar Airways (QR), to violate international and national agreements and institutionalise discrimination.

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Unite’s Charlotte Upton talking to hub activists

news 17 Jun 2015

First hub office opens in Humber to build union organising

Activists trained by the ITF and its affiliate Unite the Union have succeeded in setting up a hub office within Immingham Port – one of four major ports on the UK’s Humber river, Europe’s eighth largest port complex – to organise and forge alliances across job sectors.

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SRI and ITF release education videos on Day of the Seafarer

ITF slams Shipping Australia over dangerous comments on FOC shipping inquiry

Fighting for better seas - the ITF's FOC campaign

Colombian court orders Avianca to pay cheated workers

ITF welcomes Australian Senate inquiry into FOC shipping and condemns government attacks on cabotage

St Lucia hosts union training connecting dockers worldwide

Colombian court orders Avianca to pay workers cheated by decade of anti-unionism

Arab World oil supply chain unions forge alliances for workers’ power

Qatar guilty, says ILO

First hub office opens in Humber to build union organising

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