Romania -Non-compliance by offshore subcontractor -February 17, 2012

48 workers, contracted by the Romanian company Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP) to work on its offshore rig GSP Britannia, berthed in Hartlepool, are complaining that they have not been paid since October 2011. An inspection of International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), as part of the week of action launched in Aberdeen on 7 February by North Sea trade unions and ITF affiliates, revealed that many workers appear to have been paid half the UK minimum wage – receiving only UKP3.50 (€4.15) per hour for a 12-hour day, seven days a week. One hundred other GSP company employees are seeking assistance from the ITF office in Constanta, Romania, for non-payment of wages. There are reports that the company and the “yellow” (employer-run) union threaten the workers if they seek ITF assistance.

English: http://www.itfglobal.org/news-online/index.cfm/newsdetail/7042

 

This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the future editor – as from the March 2012 issue – Jan Cremers, at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl, or Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org, communications officer at the ETUI. The editor of this issue was Maarten van Klaveren, M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2012. To unsubscribe, please contact Mariya Nikolova.

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