ITF South East Asia week of action begins Monday
06/01/2012
The first ITF week of action of 2012 will begin on Monday in South East Asia and run from 9 to 13 January. Teams of seafarer and docker trade unionists will accompany ITF inspectors on ship visits to enforce decent pay and working conditions on vessels docking in ports in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
The week will be coordinated from the ITF’s Asia Pacific office in New Delhi, India, from where regional secretary Mahendra Sharma commented: “We’re pleased to welcome Thai unions into this latest action, whose participants intend to do everything possible to ensure decent pay and conditions are applied on ships across the region.”
He added: “Chinese and UAE based shipping companies will be on the radar and strict actions will be taken against them if they are found ignoring the application of internationally accepted standards of work and wages on board their ships.”
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For more details please contact:
In New Delhi, Sangam Tripathy or Jasvinder Singh.
Tel: +91 (0) 11 2335 4408 / 7423 or 11 2373 1669.
Email: itfindia@vsnl.com
In London, ITF press officer, Sam Dawson.
Tel: + 44 (0)20 7940 9260.
E-mail: dawson_sam@itf.org.uk
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