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‘There's no law on Earth that stops the government making sure seafarers are paid properly’
RMT assistant general secretary EDDIE DEMPSEY says a Labour government has the opportunity to protect mariners, renew our port towns and rebuild a once proud tradition of seafaring in this country
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FOR Eddie Dempsey, RMT’s assistant general secretary, the destruction of Britain’s maritime sector is an act of national self-harm — one the union is determined to reverse.
With Nautilus and the TUC, it’s working on a mandatory seafarers’ charter — not just to prevent more scandals like the illegal mass sacking of workers by P&O ferries two years ago, but to rebuild one of the country’s proudest working-class industries.
“My father was a deep sea sailor who sailed out of the port of London. There’s no more deep sea sailors in Britain. The people that are working in the maritime sector are retiring, there’s no training provided to bring new people in,” he told journalists on the fringes of a union rally last week.
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