ITF’s Cotton predicts industrial unrest as inflation soars
Harry Papachristou 4 July 2022
Next year’s IBF wage talks will be no piece of cake, labour leader warns
Seafarers and shipping companies won’t find it easy to agree on an industry-wide wage agreement next year amid soaring inflation, according to a senior labour leader.
“It’s going to take some work,” Steve Cotton, general secretary of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), told TradeWinds on 1 July on the sidelines of the Turkish Maritime Summit in Istanbul.