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On World Maritime Day, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has painted a difficult picture of the realities facing many seafarers ac...

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and its affiliated seafarers’ unions will now assist hundreds of thousands of seafarers to exercise their right to stop working, leave ships, and return home.

  

Global transport unions will be joining 560 Liverpool striking dockers on the picket line at the Port of Liverpool, as port operator Mersey Docks and Harbour Company Limited (MDHC) fails to honour

The International Transport Workers’ Federation is joining the Maritime Union of New Zealand in calling for a national inquiry into port safety following the death of a dockworker at New...

Victory for dockers in Liberia after titanic struggle for justice 07 May 2021 Press Release Twenty-four dockworkers are today back at work after a struggle of epic proportions.   Members and leaders of ITF affiliate the Dock Workers’ Union of Liberia (DOWUL) were wrongly suspended by APM Terminals in Monrovia, the country’s capital. Those wrongful suspensions set in motion more than seven months of struggle, hardship and stress for these brave and determined...

Workers Revolutionary Party Canadian Union of Public Employees strikers on the picket line at the Port of Montreal Unions across the world are outraged to learn that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal minority government teamed up with Canada’s Conservative opposition in the early hours of last Thursday morning to progress legislation to rip away Montréal dockworkers’ right to strike. ‘Justin Trudeau’s government has launched an assault on the human rights of t...

Canada’s Industrial Relations Board which ruled in 2020 that the Montréal dockers’ right to strike could not be restricted as their work did not amount to an essential service; International Labour Standards which Canada is required to uphold as by virtue of its membership of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and having ratified ILO conventions 87 and 98; and rulings by ILO’s Committee on Freedom of Association. “Montreal’s dockers did the right thing. They bargained in goo...