Ministers are putting urgent training and safety issues back on the agenda
Due to the lack of provision for training, education and safety for shipping workers Unions and MPs are putting urgent training and safety issues surrounding the nation's maritime industry back on the agenda "big time" this week.They are worried that the lack of provision for training, education and safety for shipping workers will result in a huge crisis in recruitment.Nautilus International union spokesman Andrew Linington told the Morning Star yesterday: "They are back on the agenda big time because there are so many burning issues."Nautilus and the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union are holding talks on Wednesday to look at areas for mutual collaboration in the fight. The next day a working group of interested MPs will meet Shipping Minister Mike Penning.One of them, Hull East Labour MP Karl Turner, wrote in the latest RMT News that the group was already backing the union's efforts to apply the national minimum wage to British-flagged vessels in our territorial waters.The group "was set up at the end of the last Labour government and the minister is trying to kick this into the long grass. We won't let him." He added: "We need more jobs from the maritime sector, not just in ...
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