Union accuses shipping firm of paying crew €1.01 an hour

A VESSEL supplying one of the country’s leading supermarkets with much of its stock is to be exposed by a trade union for paying crew members as little as $1.31 (€1.01) per hour.

Ken Fleming of Ireland’s International Transport Workers Federation said the as yet unnamed shipping company is paying $1.31 per hour for carrying goods for one of the country’s leading retailers.

He said he has documentary proof from payslips of the massive underpaying of the crew members.