News / Back to work at Jordan's Aqaba Container Teminal – but the wounds need healing

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APM Terminals today responded to the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) “victory” statement on the new contract at Jordanian gateway Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT), and claimed “misleading information had been cited”.

APMT denied ITF claims that 150 people had been arrested by police during a strike last week and that 23 workers had been dismissed at the facility, and said the ITF’s statements were “misleading, incorrect and not supported by facts”.

Negotiations between ACT and the ITF-affiliated General Union of Port Workers ...