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The International Transport Workers’ Federation and four Panamanian unions have accused the Panama Canal Authority of ongoing failure to provide decent pay and safe working conditions for more than 9,000 affiliated maritime workers in the canal zone.

Representatives from four Panamanian unions, accompanied by ITF leadership … claim the Panama Canal Authority “has failed to adequately recognize an appropriate level of respect to labor regulations, decisions by the National Labor Relations Board, compensatory guarantees considering the uniqueness of the Panama Canal working conditions, good faith collective bargaining and ILO freedom of association principles.”

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