Why isn't the Seafarer Unions speaking out against taxing seafarers as normal citizens?
Okay is it my imagination but in all the Canadian Seafarer Union web sites that I have visited. None of them speak or show any information about them trying to get taxes for the seafarer made equal to other countries such as the UK. Not one site mentioned that the seafarer should have the same taxation as someone who works up on the oil rigs.
Please tell me this isn’t so. The unions are not fighting for this as it affects every Canadian Seafarer who works in international waters.
posted by Cosmo at
3:23 PM
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Because Unions don't really have much of a foothold in the industry in general, much less on the foreign part of the industry. They don't have anything to gain by it. Look at Numast in Britain, they are very vocal but really are always fighting an uphill battle, event thought they have a much more developed seafaring industry.
I don't expect any currently established unions to support this idea, and asking people to join is fine, but no body will join because of costs to seafarers and the nature (cheap, solitary) of a seafarer. Its sad but to be expected.
Yes, that is a sad but true fact. You think their membership would be doing something about it.
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