The ship APL England was arrested in Australia for insufficient control after losing 40 containers… As we face an uncertain future of automation and the ongoing struggle for jurisdiction, we explain aloud that transformation is the job of dockworkers. We expect fights in our respective national campaigns to assert lashing, but the ITF and its associates are engaged in this fight – and there is no acceptable outcome other than victory. Work has already begun on port subsidiaries in Europe and at the Port of Montreal (Canada), with ITF inspectors pledging to support the implementation of the clause. If you see sailors doing the work of dockers, or a ship that arrives without a belt, let your union representatives and the local ITF inspector know that each inspector is trained to solve the problem and defend the responsibility of the dockworkers for striking. Together, we will secure our work, our docks and the world`s cargoes. The Dockers are doing heavy uprising all over the world. The International Transport Workers` Federation (ITF) and the European Transport Workers` Federation (ETF) are now calling on ship operators to return the operation to shore-up dockworkers. Other important points of the agreement include the strengthening of assistance to seafarers in the field of seafarers, the 16-point increase in the rebate granted to JNG members under the ITF Solidarity Fund, with an additional 2 pects available on the basis of an incentive system, as well as the reassessment of the war zone off the coast of Somalia into a high-risk zone and the addition of a 12 nm zone off the coast of Yemen.
One of the main successes of the campaign was the negotiation of a new docker clause, more binding and binding at the International Negotiation Forum: the group that brings together seafarers` unions and maritime employers at the global level. Negotiators approved a clause stipulating that the work should be done by qualified dockworkers. This agreement was reached in February 2018 and the ETF is preparing to prepare for the implementation of this new clause in Europe. Nevertheless, Maersk and other lines, including MSC, continue to ask the crew to resume operations. Container News has seen documents showing that the MSC, based in Switzerland, offers bonuses to the crew for tasks. The ITF says seafarers make offers they don`t refuse, but prefer to risk their lives rather than risk losing their jobs. In Europe, according to the ITF, the ITF receives many letters, some of which have seen Container News, from the crew requesting help, where the crew is invited to work up to 180 hours or more in overtime, resulting in enormous fatigue. While in Canada the union says lines that are accused by employees of employing them on hazardous work on the St. Lawrence, belong to the German Hapag-Lloyd, the Swiss MSC and the Danish operator Maersk Line. The European lashing ETF/ITF campaign links national campaigns run by our related companies.