{"id":40611,"date":"2015-02-02T22:29:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T14:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=40611"},"modified":"2015-02-02T22:29:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T14:29:06","slug":"20-pinoy-seafarers-without-food-on-board-bulk-brasil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/02\/20-pinoy-seafarers-without-food-on-board-bulk-brasil\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Pinoy seafarers without food on board Bulk Brasil"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21224\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/food-poverty-hunger-starvation-malnourish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21224\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/food-poverty-hunger-starvation-malnourish-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/food-poverty-hunger-starvation-malnourish-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/food-poverty-hunger-starvation-malnourish-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/food-poverty-hunger-starvation-malnourish-20x13.jpg 20w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/food-poverty-hunger-starvation-malnourish.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Australian Maritime Safety Authority last January 29 detained Bulk Brasil which was carrying Australian cargo bound for UK after reports surfaced about their seafarers not receiving their paychecks since September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe shocking thing is that this company has signed agreements with our organization to say that they will pay an international minimum standard and yet haven\u2019t bothered paying them for four months. Now this is the crisis, when the human element comes to the fore,\u201d said International Transport Workers\u2019 Federation (ITF) National Coordinator Dean Summers during an interview.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cOver the past 20 years the ships have improved, but the quality of management and respect for seafarers is probably at an all-time low.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ship is under the Japanese Company Keymax.<\/p>\n<p>Summers said that they will conduct an investigation on the Australian company that owns the cargo. Moreover, the seafarers need to be paid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Australian cargo owners, those that make profits selling their cargo to international markets, have to take responsibility for this,\u201d Summers pointed out. \u201cYou can\u2019t just put your cargo on the crappiest, cheapest ship, that doesn\u2019t feed and doesn\u2019t pay it\u2019s seafarers and say it\u2019s not your responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned, \u201cSo we\u2019re looking for the cargo owner and we\u2019ll be holding them up to some responsibility in this as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Summers revealed that Keymax has a reputation of breaching the Maritime Labor code.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently 20 unpaid Filipino workers on board the Bulk Brasil. They were promised to get certain fees for compensation but the company failed to provide to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality is that if seafarers do complain, it can be very difficult for them to ever get another job,\u201d said Summers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Australian Maritime Safety Authority last January 29 detained Bulk Brasil which was carrying Australian cargo bound for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}