Transport and Dockworkers' Union in India, ITF photo from Day of Action in October 2010
Truck drivers at the Gateway Terminals India (GTI) container terminal in Mumbai have been guaranteed decent pay and working conditions, following a three-year struggle to secure a collective bargaining agreement with the port operator.
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has claimed that in the past workers had been violently attacked after opting to join a union and has led to a “sometimes bloody struggle”.
It said: “It once again proves that global network terminal operators can and should hold their subcontractors to a decent standard of behaviour.”