Call on Svitzer to stop attacking tug workers

Com­pa­nies like Svitzer are dri­ving a race to the bot­tom in the tug sec­tor. We know that tug work­ers and their fam­i­lies are pay­ing the price of aggres­sive employ­er tac­tics like Svitzer’s. Longer hours. Low­er pay. More acci­dents at work. Our glob­al union fam­i­ly won’t stand for this. Espe­cial­ly not when com­pa­nies like AP Moller-Maer­sk made a USD $20 bil­lion prof­it last year — much of it thanks to the hard work and skill of tug work­ers, dock­ers and sea­far­ers. It’s time for Svitzer to recog­nise tug work­ers’ efforts.