Maritime Jobs
Friday, March 29, 2024

National Union News

Shipping Corp Seafarers on Hunger Strike

.   According to a Press Trust of India report, these seafarers, deployed on 15 vessels owned and operated by the Centre, launched their strike demanding revised wages in accordance with the clauses of National Maritime Board Indias agreement.   These seafarers have also approached the National Union of Seafarers of India (NUSI) for its intervention.   "SCI was meant to have increased seafarer wages by 30% as agreed in March last year," says the Union.   “The arrears haven’t been given for over a year now. So the seafarers of 16 ships of Shipping Corporation

Abdulgani Serang (Photo: NUSI)

India’s NUSI Warns of Oil Exploration Training Shortage

Indian shipping trade union the National Union of Seafarers of India (NUSI) has asked the Indian Ministry of Shipping for financial help toward the training of maritime workforce in oil exploration activities.   The union’s General Secretary, Abdulgani Serang, said NUSI has requested financial aid and incentives from the Ministry through National Shipping Board for training the maritime workforce at NUSI Offshore Training Institute (NOTI), currently operated by NUSI-ITF Trust.   NOTI trains the workforce that operates specialized vessels, or small-sized ships, catering to various

Ron Tucker, Secretary Treasurer of Local 333 and Captain Don Marcus, who serves as President of the Masters Mates & Pilots.

MM&P Hopes to Pad Ranks with Brown Water Mariners

& Pilots will bring added clout, resources and training to local mariners and open the door to opportunities beyond the East Coast, the union said. Ballots are arriving in the mail this week at the homes of 1,300 area mariners for an election to decide whether local watermen will join a large national union of deck officers who serve on ocean-going ships, and which also represents captains and crews on inland waterways beyond New York Harbor. Ballots will be tabulated and results announced in mid-November. Ron Tucker, Secretary Treasurer of Local 333, the group that currently represents the men

Tax Relief for Indian Seafarers

touches two Indian ports during a voyage whereas Indians serving on foreign flag vessels were exempted from paying such a tax. This had cast a burden not only on the seafarers but Indian shipping companies which, as a result, have been seeing flight of good talent to foreign shipping companies. The National Union of Seafarers of India (NUSI) has been consistently persuing the matter with the Government of India demanding grant of parity to Indian seafarers serviing on Indian vessels with those on foreign flagged vessel and have now finally found success. NUSI informed that the Government has accepted

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