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As the dockers’ strike at Callao port in Peru reached its seventh day, unions called on the ITF and Peruvian authorities to intervene over allegations that APM Terminals was acting illegally and disregarding the risks to health by using seafarers to assist with unloading containers.

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) has criticised moves by the conservative Australian government to deregulate its shipping industry and place at risk thousands of domestic jobs in the maritime sector.

The ITUC and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) call on the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private-sector lending arm, to implement the recommendations issued today by IFC’s Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) to improve compliance procedures for IFC Performance Standard 2 on labour and working conditions.

Members of the ITF’s fair practices committee (FPC) and steering group met this week in Perth, Australia, to boost campaigns by Australian and New Zealand affiliates to demand action over worker and union rights by offshore oil and gas giants Chevron and BP.

ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) president and chair of its dockers’ section, Paddy Crumlin, has expressed the organisation’s condolences over the death of a docker in Bremerhaven, Germany.

A new and comprehensive survey by the ITF has shown the need for continuing work to address HIV/AIDS and wellbeing among seafarers.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and UNI Global Union today condemned as cynical Deutsche Post-DHL’s move to drastically cut the pay of its parcel delivery workers in Germany.

ITF dockers’ section representatives meeting in Perth, Australia have backed the ITF-affiilated Peruvian SUTRAMPORPC union as it begins an indefinite strike today at APM Terminals’ (APMT) North Pier terminal in Callao, Peru’s largest port.