Change language |  text only  |  accessibility  |  site help  |  site map  | My ITF login | register
* *
International Transport Workers' FederationInternational Transport Workers' Federation
*
*
Home > Dockers

Dockers

The ITF's Dockers' Section supports affiliated dock workers' unions in defending the interests of their members. More >>

Tribute to Kenji Yasuda, Zenkoku Kowan >>

Port Industry Update: Available online
A quarterly bulletin produced by the Dockers’ Section for affiliated unions

Container Cargo Safety
The ITF Road Transport Workers' Section and ITF Dockers' Section are coordinating their activities on this issue.

June Maritime Meetings

  • Seafarers' and Dockers' Women's Seminar
  • Dockers' Section Committee
  • Seafarers' Section Committee
  • Seafarers' Section Conference
  • Dockers' Section Conference
  • Coordinators Meeting
  • FPC Steering Group
  • Fair Practices Committee

Register online >>

*

News online

30 Sep 2008
Port workers support organising in global network terminals
Unions representing workers at the world’s largest port terminal operators took firm steps forward recently as they planned future strategies and vowed to increase workers’ organisation along major transport chains. Fifty port workers’...

26 Sep 2008
ILWU dockers back striking crew
Crew members on the Liberian flagged Cap Spencer were able to call off a strike in Long Beach this week after winning all their demands with the help of local dockworkers. The crew contacted ITF inspector Stefan Mueller-Dombois, asking for help...
 

*

Press releases

24 Sep 2008
East Asia week of action begins
Embargoed. Not for use before 00.01 Monday 22 September 2008. Maritime trade union members of the ITF are today (Monday 22 Sept) beginning a highly targeted week of action in Japan, Taiwan and Korea. Trade unionists and ITF inspectors will...

12 Sep 2008
Mexican dockers fight for right to union, 18 years after illegal asset grab
Dockers in the Mexican port of Veracruz are fighting to have their trade union recognised 18 years after it was illegally dissolved at gunpoint. Tomorrow survivors of the death threats and attempted military crushing of the Unión de Estibadores y...
 

*

*
Related pages:

Port Industry Update
A quarterly bulletin produced by the Dockers’ Section for affiliated unions

Container Cargo Safety
Information on container cargo safety

Statement on ILO Convention 137
We are writing to ask all IT affiliated Dockers unions to support the FNV Bondgenoten Netherlands in their campaign against the Dutch governments plans to de-ratify (denounce) ILO Convention 137.

*
top
*
Quick search
 
Advanced search
*
 
*
Dockers
About This Section*Section Committee*Port Industry Update*Kenji Yasuda*
 
*
ITF campaigns*
Campaign Poster

International Road Transport Action Week 2008
13-19 October 2008 more >>
 
Justice for Pedro Zamora and STEPQ
Join the ITF in calling for justice in Guatemala. Pedro Zamora, General Secretary of the Dockers' union STEPQ, was brutally murdered in Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala, while driving his two children from the port hospital. Now, other union leaders face similar threats of violence. We must ensure the guilty are brought to justice ¡No hay impunidad! more >>
 
 
*
*
ITF House, 49-60 Borough Road, London SE1 1DR  |  +44 20 7403 2733   |  mail@itf.org.uk
ITF House, 49-60 Borough Road, London SE1 1DR  |  +44 20 7403 2733   |  mail@itf.org.uk