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Argentine fishers hail victory in organising drive

9 Agosto 2010

Delegates at the fisheries section conference on Saturday heard how the SOMU maritime union in Argentina had been waging a successful organizing campaign on fishing boats in Mar del Plata.

Union general secretary Omar Suárez reported to the conference on Saturday that union recognition agreements were torn up by the military junta in the 1970s and 80s. But in recent years, the union had used strikes – lasting up to five months – and its membership and influence in the docks and seafaring sectors to force the employers to return to collective bargaining.

The union’s actions included blockades of fish exports and shipments. The final agreement was concluded in the week before Congress.

Suárez offered to support organising efforts by other unions. “We want to use this model tirelessly in other fisheries,” he declared.

Delegates agreed that more efforts were needed to persuade governments to ratify International Labour Organization Work in Fishing Convention 188. The convention incorporates and updates most of the existing ILO fishing instruments on working conditions, mainly on large fishing craft. It needs to be ratified by 10 countries, including eight coastal states, before beginning the process of coming into force. So far, only one country has ratified it.

The conference also endorsed the “Mexico Declaration” signed by Argentine, Brazilian, Panamanian and Uruguayan unions denouncing the Dutch marine salvage company Smit for its anti-union and social dumping activities.

Concern was expressed about the growth of piracy affecting, above all, tuna fishers in the Indian Ocean. Three vessels with more than 75 crew were currently being held.

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