Day: 1 October 2006

Fishing bosses out of touch on wages and conditions

Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says com­ments by cor­po­rate heads of New Zealand’s fish­ing indus­try shows their out­look is out­dat­ed.

He says some fish­ing boss­es are try­ing to under­mine a Gov­ern­ment plan to ensure mar­ket rates were paid to all fish­er­men in New Zealand waters.

Mr Han­son says the moves by the Gov­ern­ment are the result of a long process of inves­ti­ga­tion, and need­ed to hap­pen to bring New Zealand into line with Inter­na­tion­al Labour Orga­ni­za­tion (ILO) stan­dards.