Category: English news

***World’s biggest labor watchdog coming to S. Korea The Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (OECD-TUAC) and International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) – the biggest labor union of the world – will visit South Korea to investigate the status Далее

***China And Qatar Want Flight Attendants To Be Young, Single, Skinny And Female Just like American airlines did in the 1960s In China, some young ladies attend university for a chance to enter a beauty pageant. But it’s a very specific pageant, Далее

***Donald Duckling’s stranded crew head home but ship stays on Tyne FLYING HOME … the Donald Ducking crew at Newcastle Airport. A SHIP’S crew have headed home after being stranded on the Tyne for seven weeks – but the future Далее

***Stranded Donald Duckling cargo ship crew return home The crew of a cargo ship detained on the River Tyne since November have flown home to the Philippines. Eleven sailors on the Panama-registered Donald Duckling departed from Newcastle Airport, leaving the Далее

Portuguese dockers air grievances A pledge of support has been given to dockworkers in Lisbon by both the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and the International Dockworkers’ Council (IDC) in advance of a Europe-wide strike planned for next week. According Далее

***ITF – Korean Police Attack KCTU Headquarters Urgent: Korean police attack KCTU headquarters Dear friends, Many affiliates have shown their solidarity to the KRWU strike including through protests at local Korean embassies on December 10. The ITF and the KRWU Далее

***Top 10 in regulation A year of lively debate about the future constraints on shipping 1. The European body politic THE European political apparatus has moved to the top of this year’s regulatory top 10 for its carrot-and-stick approach. The Далее

***Supporting the Filipino seafarer A quarter of the world’s 1.5m seamen are Filipinos; industry-wide help for those affected by Typhoon Haiyan has been huge SINGAPORE has already contributed generously and effectively, at government, corporate and private levels, to the international Далее

***Maritime and transport unionists meet THE Papua New Guinea unions are playing host to unionists from the maritime and transport sectors of Australia and New Zealand as well as the powerful Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union of Australia (CFMEU). Далее

***Shipping rallies round to help battered Philippines After Typhoon Haiyan, the industry has rushed to help with aid efforts in an area that is one of the world’s largest suppliers of seafarers Super-typhoon Haiyan cut a deadly path across much Далее