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ITF members to vote FOC policy
The nearly one and a half thousand delegates attending the ITF congress in Mexico will vote on Sunday (8 August) on whether or not to accept an overhaul of the ITF’s FOC policy that is designed to take it forward for the next four years
The review of the flag of convenience campaign has been in the making
since being mandated at the organisation’s last congress in Durban,
South Africa, in 2006. It will be the first major update to the campaign
since 1998.
The Durban event called for a review that would be carried out by the
ITF’s affiliates. It is now ready to report, and has examined three main
areas: policy, processes and structure, with particular reference to:
•??? The role in the campaign of affiliates, inspectors and ITF offices
•??? The IBF (International Bargaining Forum)
•??? Transparency and accountability
•??? The impact of EU developments
•??? Implementation
What has emerged from the process, and which will be put to the vote, is
a number of updates and refinements to the ITF FOC campaign. These
include: a sharpening of the understanding of the role of beneficial
ownership*; acceptance of the positive role the IBF can play;
improvements to working practices and structures to ensure decisions are
democratic, consensual and timely; a new policy setting down new
minimum standards for non-domiciled crew employed on national flag
ships; and an upgrade to the ITF’s ‘seafarers’ charter’, which aims to
ensure that seafarers covered by ITF agreements have democratic rights
within their unions, within the ITF and on their ships.
ITF Maritime Coordinator Steve Cotton commented: “What has come out of
this almost four year, member union-driven exercise is a raft of
recommendations on how the FOC campaign can be run effectively,
accountably and efficiently in the fast changing world of modern
shipping. We await with eagerness the response of the whole membership
to it.”
What, if accepted, will be known as ‘the ITF Mexico policy’ will be put
first to the Seafarers’ Section Conference and the Dockers’ Section
Conference on, respectively, 6 and 7 August, and then to the Joint
Seafarers’ and Dockers’ Conference on Sunday 8 August. Congress will
then vote on whether or not to endorse the policy, which:
•??? Makes crew interests more prominent
•??? Recognises the role of international bargaining
•??? Supports the ports of convenience campaign
•??? Defines beneficial ownership
•??? Clarifies negotiating rights
•??? Promotes bilateral agreements, where practicable, between labour
supply country unions and beneficial ownership country unions.
Some 1376 participants from 368 trade unions in 112 countries are
meeting at the ITF congress in Mexico, which will set ITF policy for the
next four years and elects its president, vice-presidents, general
secretary and executive board.
Source: ITF
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