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Global Union Brands COP17 ‘A Wasted Opportunity’
Thursday, 8 December 2011, 11:40 am | ITF Press Officer
[T]he ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) today reacted with disappointment to the failure of the UN COP17 [....]The ITF is also supporting the call for a commitment to find new sources of funding for a ‘green climate fund’ that will assist developing ... More >>
Global Union Questions Turkish Government’s Sincerity
Wednesday, 7 December 2011, 1:13 pm | ITF Press Officer
Global union the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) today questioned whether the Turkish government is abandoning any attempts to live up to its international commitments to respect trade union rights. More >>
Imprisoned Trade Unionist Ebrahim Madadi Is Freed
Friday, 2 December 2011, 9:27 am | ITF Press Officer
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) are welcoming the release today from prison of Ebrahim Madadi, a board member of the Tehran bus drivers’ union, the Vahed Syndicate. Ebrahim ... More >>
ITF: World Food Programme chartered ship ‘is substandard’
Saturday, 22 October 2011, 3:27 pm | ITF Press Officer
ITF inspectors have exposed what they believe is a pattern of poor conditions and underpayment on the Sea Master 1, a ship chartered by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and moored in Mombasa, Kenya. They have alerted the WFP. More >>
Arab World aviation unions back Gulf Air workers
Saturday, 1 October 2011, 4:27 pm | ITF Press Officer
Aviation trade unions from across the Arab World meeting in Beirut today backed their 200 plus colleagues in Gulf Air who have been unfairly dismissed. More >>
ITF Arab World unions commit to building democracy
Sunday, 27 March 2011, 12:46 am | ITF Press Officer
A two day conference designed to support democratic trade unions in the Middle East closed in Amman, Jordan this week with a commitment to build and sustain democracy and independent trade unionism across the region. The meeting was organised by the ... More >>
Seafarer boycott of piracy areas ‘now possible’
Sunday, 27 February 2011, 2:00 pm | ITF Press Officer
The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) today signalled its revulsion at the increasingly widespread and brutal piracy epidemic and said it is moving closer to having to advise seafarers to consider avoiding working in all the affected areas ... More >>
ITF comment on Aung San Suu Kyi release
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 4:16 pm | ITF Press Officer
ITF General Secretary David Cockroft commented: "We're delighted to see Aung San Suu Kyi released and wish her well in the huge task ahead. She and her colleagues in the National League for Democracy can count on the continuing support of the trade ... More >>
Strike Cripples French Ports
Saturday, 27 February 2010, 4:10 pm | ITF Press Officer
ACTIVITY at French ports was heavily disrupted today by a lightning 24-hour strike by port workers protesting at what they claimed was the use of force by the French government to enable MSC Cruises’ newest cruise ship, MSC Magnifica, to escape ... More >>
ITF Redoubles Costa Rica Protests
Saturday, 27 February 2010, 4:08 pm | ITF Press Officer
The ITF today redoubled its protests to the Costa Rican government over the apparent attempted deliberate destruction of a legitimate port workers’ union, called on its trade union members to prepare solidarity action, and approached shipping companies ... More >>
Justice For Cormorant Crew
Friday, 12 February 2010, 12:10 pm | ITF Press Officer
The ITF today congratulated the Danish authorities for acting to avert a potential miscarriage of justice against three seafarers. The men – innocent victims of a ship owner who took their passports and abandoned them and their ship – were close ... More >>
Costa Rican Govt Warned Over Trade Union Abuses
Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 9:16 am | ITF Press Officer
Global union federation the ITF today called on its 751 member unions worldwide – including 214 dockworkers’ unions – to protest at mistreatment of trade unionists in Costa Rica. More >>
Youth plan needs to incorporate training
Monday, 3 August 2009, 9:43 am | ITF Press Officer
Employers and community groups taking advantage of the government’s new youth opportunities scheme should work with Industry Training Organisations to ensure that a training element is incorporated into the arrangement. Industry Training Federation Executive ... More >>
ITF Comment on UN Resolution 1848
Wednesday, 3 December 2008, 10:54 am | ITF Press Officer
Responding to the United Nations Security Council’s unanimous passing of Resolution 1848 on piracy today, ITF General Secretary David Cockroft commented: “This is a very welcome response to the efforts we’ve all made to get this resolution and ... More >>
Transport Workers Drive World AIDS Day
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 10:10 am | ITF Press Officer
On planes, trains & automobiles – not to mention buses, trams, docks, boats and ships, transport workers will be marking the 20th World Aids Day on Monday 1 December. More >>
Iranian Teacher Unionist Still Alive
Friday, 28 November 2008, 12:05 pm | ITF Press Officer
BRUSSELS, 27 November 2008— Teachers, trade unionists and human rights defenders around the world are mobilising in defence of Farzad Kamangar, an Iranian Kurdish teacher and trade unionist who is at risk of execution. More >>
Justice at Last for Coral Sea Captain
Friday, 28 November 2008, 10:34 am | ITF Press Officer
Captain Kristo Laptalo (59), master of the Coral Sea, has just been found innocent in a Greek court of any involvement in cocaine smuggling. More >>
ITF backs Indian unions’ Stolt Valor campaign
Tuesday, 28 October 2008, 6:53 pm | ITF Press Officer
Speaking in support of the campaign by the National Union of Seafarers of India (NUSI) and the Maritime Union of India (MUI) to secure the release of the crew of the Stolt Valor, which was hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, ITF Maritime Coordinator ... More >>
Baltic Sea Action Notches up More Successes
Friday, 10 October 2008, 4:47 pm | ITF Press Officer
Sweden: Two ships were inspected in the port of Uddevalla on Tuesday, the Panama flagged Rubicone and Shireen. The Rubicone’s registered owner is Italian, the beneficial owner is in Guernsey and the manager in Switzerland. The Swedish team worked around ... More >>
Pirates In Somalia Threaten Lives Of Seafarers
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 8:36 pm | ITF Press Officer
The international shipping industry (represented by BIMCO, ICS/ISF, INTERCARGO and INTERTANKO and the International Transport Workers’ Federation) is dismayed by recent comments, attributed to leaders of the Coalition Task Force operating in the ... More >>
