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ITF LAUNCHES ASIAN CAMPAIGN WEEK
By David Hughes
Published: Mon, 23 November 2009
Trade unions in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Singapore have launched a South East Asia week of action. Organised by seafarers' and dockers' unions working together with the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), the action week’s stated aim is to prevent exploitation of seafarers.
South East Asia is the largest source of seafarers in the world shipping trade and there will be particular efforts to make seafarers more aware of bad manning practices and to ensure that ship managers and owners stop using bad manning agents.
ITF says: “The plight of Burmese seafarers is one of the greatest concerns to the region as they are particularly vulnerable to abuse. ITF affiliated unions in South East Asia are working together to ensure their human rights are protected. In Thailand, the Seafarers’ Union of Burma has gained support from Thai unions - including many with workers in the road and rail industries - to help protect Burmese seafarers and workers in fishery industries in Thailand.”
It adds: “There was a success in Taiwan even before the week began, when one of the targeted companies agreed to sign an agreement for one of their vessels with the Taiwan-based National Chinese Seamen’s Union. As a result the company has now been taken off the target list during this week.”