More Russian seafarers in the Far East are following the example of the crew of Madero and taking strike action to recover owed wages. The 15 Russian crew of the Kigilyakh, docked in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, are taking action against the North-Eastern Shipping Company of Vladivostok to retrieve wages of US$76,187, owed for over six months in some cases. The crew is currently refusing to berth to unload the ship’s coal cargo, and two crew have been threatened with the sack, a threat now being challenged by the ITF regional inspector Petr Osichansky.
Source: http://www.itfseafarers.org/maritime_news.cfm/newsdetail/3079/region/6/section/0/order/1
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Illegal strike could be just cause for dismissal for seafarers but six months not receiving salaries is too much for them, their families back home are starving because of the failure of the company to pay the seafarers wages.
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