The ILO Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 - A guide for unions
Year: 2007 Language: english Author: ITF Genre: Guide Edition: 2007 ISBN: 1-904676-48-0 Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 59 Description: The ILO Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No 188) was designed to ensure that fishers worldwide have access to decent working and living conditions. Along with an official accompanying recommendation, it was adopted in June 2007, after years of difficult negotiation. This landmark convention is applicable to all types of commercial fishing and seeks to provide acceptable minimum standards that protect fishers in all aspects of their work, in what is a highly dangerous and mostly unregulated profession. Fishers and fishing vessels are excluded from nearly all existing legislation so this convention sets out a basic framework of obligations for employers, and corresponding obligations for governments to input minimum standards into national legislation. This is a bigger challenge for some governments than others, given the diverse conditions in which the global fishing industry operates. For the same reason the convention’s most basic provisions are likely to have a greater impact on fishers working in less developed parts of the industry. The convention is flexible, so that it can be relevant to all types of commercial fishing and be implemented all around the world. It also enjoys the flexibility of gradual implementation for certain provisions. But, although adopted, it will not come into force until it is ratified by 10 International Labour Organization (ILO) member states, eight of which must be coastal ones. That target has not been reached. The ITF believes that it is essential that more countries ratify, and that trade unions have an important role to play in persuading them to do so. The ITF would like to pay tribute to the 30 million men and women working in the fishing industry worldwide and wants to assist them to achieve decent working conditions through the implementation of this convention. This guide has been designed to help trade unions and their members to understand the convention and lobby more effectively for its ratification; to assist them to use it to improve conditions and support collective bargaining; and also to show how it can be implemented with the aid of a dedicated ITF model collective bargaining agreement.
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The ILO Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 - A guide for unions
Language: english
Author: ITF
Genre: Guide
Edition: 2007
ISBN: 1-904676-48-0
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 59
Description: The ILO Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No 188) was designed to ensure that
fishers worldwide have access to decent working and living conditions. Along with
an official accompanying recommendation, it was adopted in June 2007, after years
of difficult negotiation.
This landmark convention is applicable to all types of commercial fishing and seeks
to provide acceptable minimum standards that protect fishers in all aspects of their
work, in what is a highly dangerous and mostly unregulated profession.
Fishers and fishing vessels are excluded from nearly all existing legislation so this
convention sets out a basic framework of obligations for employers, and
corresponding obligations for governments to input minimum standards into
national legislation. This is a bigger challenge for some governments than others,
given the diverse conditions in which the global fishing industry operates. For the
same reason the convention’s most basic provisions are likely to have a greater
impact on fishers working in less developed parts of the industry.
The convention is flexible, so that it can be relevant to all types of commercial
fishing and be implemented all around the world. It also enjoys the flexibility of
gradual implementation for certain provisions.
But, although adopted, it will not come into force until it is ratified by 10
International Labour Organization (ILO) member states, eight of which must be
coastal ones. That target has not been reached. The ITF believes that it is essential
that more countries ratify, and that trade unions have an important role to play in
persuading them to do so.
The ITF would like to pay tribute to the 30 million men and women working in the
fishing industry worldwide and wants to assist them to achieve decent working
conditions through the implementation of this convention. This guide has been
designed to help trade unions and their members to understand the convention
and lobby more effectively for its ratification; to assist them to use it to improve
conditions and support collective bargaining; and also to show how it can be
implemented with the aid of a dedicated ITF model collective bargaining agreement.
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