by Barista Uno | Oct 13, 2011 | Media, Communications and Language
The following report from the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) should be of interest to unions as well as shipowners and manning agents:
Research commissioned by the ITF Seafarers’ Trust has highlighted the need for trade unions to embrace electronic means of communication with their seafarer members. Carried out by London Metropolitan University’s Working Lives Research Institute, the project surveyed 1000 seafarers to find out the best ways to contact them, and how they communicated at sea and on land. (more…)
by Barista Uno | Oct 4, 2011 | Humanitarianism, Piracy and Security
Only one thing prevented World Maritime Day 2011 from becoming all sound and fury, a meaningfless orgy of speeches and messages spun around the theme “Piracy: Orchestrating the Response”. It was the launch on 29th September, City of London, of the Maritime Piracy Humanitarian Response Programme (MPHRP). This undertaking is funded by the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) Seafarers’ Trust and The TK Foundation and has the support of all the big guns in the shipping industry. The aim: to help seafarers and families cope with the physical and mental trauma caused by torture and abuse at the hands of pirates. The pain and anguish they suffer are immeasurable, beyond the world’s imagination. Hence our question – why only now? ~Barista Uno
