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Emaciated Indian seafarers stiffen resolve for a minimum pay rise
Trade union negotiations have won a much-needed pay rise for seafarers. Nautilus International leader MARK DICKINSON reports

A FEW days before the seafarers’ minimum wage talks started in Switzerland, I received a troubling phone call. 

It came from our Liverpool-based ship inspector. His International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) inspector duties had taken him to a cargo vessel moored at Bromborough on the Mersey. 

There he had found two teenage Indian sailors who appeared to be malnourished, underpaid and terrorised by the rest of the crew.

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