Joint Negotiating Group (JNG)

The Joint Negotiating Group (JNG) is the employer side of the International Bargaining Forum, representing shipowners and managers in collective wage talks with the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF). Its members are the International Maritime Employers’ Council (IMEC), the International Mariners Management Association of Japan (IMMAJ), the Korean Shipowners’ Association (KSA), and Evergreen. The JNG negotiates the IBF framework agreement that sets pay and conditions for seafarers on flag-of-convenience ships, the largest private-sector collective bargaining agreement in the world.