The International Transport Workers’ Federation has ramped up ship inspections in New South Wales this week as part of a campaign launched on Tuesday, reports Daily Cargo News.
The week of action is part of the ITF’s Nowhere to Hide campaign, which began in the Port of Newcastle on 13 June.
Nowhere to Hide campaign
The campaign targets underpayment of seafarers, and was prompted by a 2022 report that identified a rise in “wage theft” on ships in Australian waters.
The Nowhere to Hide campaign aims to increase the number of inspections between 13 and 20 June, targeting “every ship entering any New South Wales port”.
The ITF said inspectors, co-ordinators and volunteers are looking for wage theft, refusal of shore leave, failure to repatriate seafarers to their country of origin, denial of medical care and bullying and harassment of vulnerable workers.
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Source: Daily Cargo News
