Bangkok: Corrupt agents are cheating Myanmar seafarers working on
foreign vessels out of hundreds of thousands of dollars of salaries.
Also, a large proportion of people operating ships are not at all
qualified, with people taken from the street and issued a a fraudulent
Department of Marine Administration certificate. Local reports suggest
that up to 50,000 seamen from Myanmar are at sea with fraudulent
certification.
The Myanmar Maritime Workers’ Federation, officially registered in May,
but around for the past decade, is working to stamp out these corrupt
practices.
U Ye Win Tun, the deputy general secretary of the federation, said
Myanmar seamen suffer wage cuts and rights abuses more regularly than
those from other Southeast Asian countries because Myanmar has
previously not had organisations actively working to protect their
rights.
The federation has also voiced its concerns about the poor level of
English spoken by many seafarers deployed on foreign vessels.
source: SeaShipNews
http://seashipnews.com/news_content.php?fid=3w3c1223
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