Illegal seafarers’ plight highlighted for 10 years

The Workers’ Federation wants the Garda National Immigration Bureau to board vessels as

For more than a decade, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has sought to highlight issues of under-payment, exploitation and unsafe working practices in the fishing industry here, as well as a lack of joined-up thinking in the State’s response to the issue.

In particular, the ITF has sought measures to ensure sanctions are taken against boat owners here, as well as manning agents, who carry out the exploitation of workers from as far afield as the Philippines and Egypt.