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SEAFARERS must ignore “sly, spurious and sinister half truths” from the EU claiming that trade deals will level the playing field in global shipping, maritime union Nautilus heard yesterday.
The union has overwhelmingly passed policy as its conference opposing the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and the US and the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.
Nautilus young maritime professionals forum chair Martyn Gray said that TTIP would decimate the US Jones Act, which ensures that ships travelling between US ports do not fly under foreign flags to exploit loopholes in employment rights and health and safety legislation.
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MARTYN GRAY asks TUC congress to endorse measures that would help stop the present exploitation of seafarers
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT