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Mariners getting just £2.56 an hour
Seafarers aim to throw ships of shame bosses overboard
SEAFARERS protested in Aberdeen yesterday against “disgraceful” poverty pay in the shipping industry, where some are paid as little as £2.56 an hour.
Maritime union RMT laid bare the crippling low pay of those working in Scottish waters aboard Streamline Shipping’s cargo ship the MV Daroja.
The union warned that shareholders at Streamline are pocketing millions of pounds in dividends while migrant workers are “mercilessly exploited” and local seafarers “excluded from work” on a route between Scottish ports.
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