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TRANSPORT workers protested outside a conference attended by an exploitative port firm yesterday in the South African city of Durban.
Trade unionists turned out in support of the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) campaign against International Container Terminal Services Incorporated (ICTSI) which has been caught paying staff poverty wages.
They braved the rain outside the Terminal Operators’ Conference Africa in Durban, which was also attended by South African President Jacob Zuma.
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR
MARTYN GRAY asks TUC congress to endorse measures that would help stop the present exploitation of seafarers
