A Filipino cook, who contracted a chronic neuro condition on a chemical tanker, leads a landmark suit to end a Dutch practice to pay Filipinos and Indonesians less than their European counterparts.
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But Mario is sick. He has been diagnosed with a type of stroke from blocked small arteries in the brain after years of working on a chemical tanker. He now has difficulty hearing from his right ear. Before his last job on a Dutch ship, he got dizzy while taking a shower and almost fainted. It felt like a stroke .
He has always felt he was being treated unfairly, but this was something else. “We had a Dutch chief engineer, he suffered a heart attack as I suffered a stroke, he was immediately airlifted. A helicopter took him to the shore in Florida to get immediate medical attention. Because he’s Dutch.” Under a 2019 commercial shipping collective bargaining agreement , Filipinos, Indonesians, and Ukrainans specifically, may get less. In this agreement, employees are entitled to the wages and working conditions negotiated in the CBA. Except that this CBA does not cover “employees resident in the Philippines, Indonesia, Ukraine” whose wages and working conditions can be negotiated directly between a local trade union, and the Dutch union, or between a union and the individual employer.
While its judgments are not legally binding per se, it is authoritative in a way that it bears weight for when someone goes to court. The Institute said 80% of organizations “take actions” after their judgments. It is comparable to the authoritative weight of resolutions and decisions of the Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights .
“We want to reverse this ,” said De Castro, “because there’s really a global movement away from it. In the words of one seafarer, this has been a race to the bottom for Filipinos. As long as they earned in dollars, they’d do it, no matter how unequal the wages are.” Multinational companies often have discrepancies in wages when their employees work out of different cities — those who work in a more expensive city get the higher wage, taking into account the operational cost of maintaining that office, and the employee’s cost of living. But should residence be a factor when all employees are working — and living — on the same ship?
Filipino seafarers, along with other nationalities coming from top and emerging markets, are favored because they are deployed young at the operational and support levels .
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