Plight of workers on German-registered trawlers recently detained highlights need for change, Dáil hears
“In the sample I have, the official contract has the fisher on €2,000 per month but the version given the fisher promises €1,000, although in his case he was not even paid that having been voluntarily repatriated from the State last week without having received a cent since boarding that vessel in late December.”
Michael O’Brien, the fisheries campaign lead in Ireland for the International Transport Workers’ Federation, said the fishers in question told him the reality was they were at times expected to work 12 hour days, seven days a week, something that would put their hourly rate at under €3. He said he hoped that alone might prompt action on ratification more than four years after the Government ran a consultation process on the convention which it subsequently committed to ratifying.
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