Category: новости

***ITF Women’s Conference in New Delhi tackles issues facing women workers around the world Over 220 women from 80 countries gathered in New Delhi, India January 27-28 for a conference organized by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF). Representing the Далее

Defending seafarers Seafarer welfare remains a thorny subject. Credit: Joe Ross Six months in and the impact of the ILO’s Maritime Labour Convention has been restrained. Felicity Landon reports When Port State Control officer Alan Thomson went onboard the Panama-flagged Далее

***ITF President Weighs in on Multimillion Dollar Fisheries Dispute International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) president Paddy Crumlin has met with key stakeholders in Auckland, New Zealand, about the ongoing campaign to secure NZD30 million in unpaid wages for fishers in Далее

***Maritime unions gather to strengthen South Pacific trade unionism Maritime unions gather to strengthen South Pacific trade unionism 28 March 2014 received via email Maritime Unions have met in Auckland, New Zealand, to work towards a Regional Maritime Federation to Далее

***Hundreds line the streets for Bob Crow’s funeral procession Hundreds of people lined the streets to pay their respects at the funeral of trade union leader Bob Crow today. Friends and union members gather outside the City of London Cemetery Далее

***ITF wins death threats investigation promise The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) has won a promise from the Honduran ambassador to the UK to investigate death threats and victimisation of trade unionists in the city of Puerto Cortés. A high-level Далее

***Muere Víctor Conde, sindicalista canario de CCOO e inspector de la ITF Víctor Conde (1963), inspector en Canarias de la International Transport-workers Federation (ITF), falleció el pasado viernes 14 de marzo en Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Pedro Moreno, lamentó su Далее

***A Passage from Hong Kong Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate by Rose George Metropolitan, 287 pp., $28.00 Edward Burtynsky/Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto/Howard Далее

***Obituary: Bob Crow: Outspoken leader of the RMT trade union who always saw his first task as improving the lot of his members Bob Crow, the leader of the RMT (the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers), who Далее

***RMT-ITF Gen-Sec Bob Crow, 1961 – 2014 The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) is mourning the shockingly early death of our comrade Bob Crow, general secretary of the ITF-affiliated RMT, and ITF executive board member from 2002 onwards. ITF acting Далее