ITF Asia Pacific

Nepal’s government has announced plans to ban trade unions representing public service workers. This is a direct violation of ILO Conventions, Nepal’s own Constitution, and the fundamental democratic rights of workers.

Here’s what we’ve been doing: ✊ Inaugurating the Nepal Trade Union Congress 🤝 Meeting with the President of Nepal 📺 Speaking with NTV World on platform workers, global supply chains & the threat to ban trade unions in Nepal

✊🪧ØRSTED DAY OF ACTION: Over 215 unions from 100 countries have joined global transport & dockers' unions in signing a letter to @Orsted CEO @NipperMads calling for his direct intervention to resolve issues between @OrstedUS & US maritime unions. #OrstedStopUnionBusting

✊🪧ØRSTED DAY OF ACTION: Hundreds of trade unions from across the world will join together in protest against union-busting measures taken by renewable energy company @orsted. #OrstedStopUnionBusting 👇Check out our joint release👇 itfglobal.org/en/news/trade-…

Solidarity with Woodside workers who have voted 99% in favour of taking industrial action in their fight for fair pay and job security. After 13 failed legal challenges to stop their employees from bargaining, it's time Woodside cuts out the extreme anti-union ideology and comes to the table.

Seafarers have won landmark commitments to a Just Transition as part of a new climate change strategy adopted by the IMO – the UN's International Maritime Organization. 🚢👩‍✈️🌏✊ This is a big deal. Read more ⤵️ itfglobal.org/en/news/worker…

Registration is now open for the ITF Seafarers' Expo 2023 in Manila from 23 - 25 June. The Expo aims to inform about seafarers' rights, the ITF, and its affiliated seafarers' unions' critical role in supporting seafarers worldwide. 📣 Register now at: itfseafarers.org/expo

The Philippines & Indonesia, home to just under 21% of the world's crew members, are taking action to support their seafarers in developing modern skill sets as shipping decarbonizes, which will be showcased at a two-day conference starting today.bit.ly/3IgDAXr

International Workers’ Memorial Day is a day to mourn all the workers who have needlessly lost their lives to negligent employers. And it reminds us to organise so it doesn’t happen again. An injury to one, is an injury to all. #IWMD23 #WorkersMemorialDay itfglobal.org/en/news/organi…

More than 200,000 riverboat workers in Bangladesh have won a stunning 60 percent pay rise after strike action through their ITF-affiliated union federation, BNSF. #ITFInlandNav #WeAreITF #WeMovetheWorld @ITFglobalunion itfglobal.org/en/news/60-pay…

Thirteen Filipino seafarers have returned home after being stranded for over five months aboard an abandoned livestock carrier, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) announced Monday after working to secure their release. shipsandports.com.ng/itf-secures-1m…

The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) has secured the freedom for 13 abandoned Filipino seafarers stuck in Singapore for five months and has won $1 million back for crews. Read the full article on Safety 4 Sea here: safety4sea.com/itf-secures-fr…

Thirteen Filipino seafarers have made it home after more than five months aboard an abandoned livestock carrier ship, the Yangtze Harmony, thanks to the intervention of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF). marineinsight.com/shipping-news/…

HOME AT LAST! 13 Filipino seafarers have now made it home after 5+ mths aboard ship abandoned in #Singapore thanks to @ITFSeafSupport. $1m recovered for 43 crew wages. 💪 🚩 🚢 #ITFSeafarers #JoinYourUnion 📰 ⤵️ itfglobal.org/en/news/itf-se…

Unions welcome a decision from the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), which avoids up to 50,000 Philippines-certified crew being barred from working aboard European-owned ships. #training #maritime #safety itfglobal.org/en/news/unions…

Union representatives travelled from afar to hand in complaints at Maersk’s Copenhagen headquarters on Tuesday about the treatment of workers by one of the largest shipping companies in the world. seatrade-maritime.com/containers/mae…

#ITFDockers held an historic meeting with India's 🇮🇳 five largest federations of port workers this week. Our shared goal: 🛠 build workers' power across the sector So we can win: 🏗️ more secure jobs ₹ fair pay 🦺 safer ports #InternationalSolidarity #DockersUnity #ITFDockers

Trade unions representing employees of the world’s largest listed shipping company are in Copenhagen today to take their labour message directly to Maersk headquarters as the company records a $29 billion profit. bit.ly/40pckgd

MOTION PASSED: The motion for LGBTQ+ equality passes, unanimously, at our Urban Transport conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊

Experts from the Maritime Just Transition Task Force told Africa’s maritime leaders in Accra today at the Green Shipping Conference that Africa was well placed to take a large share of new jobs & training places expected from shipping’s green transition.bit.ly/3xmB2Bd