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Inspectors secure pay and return for bankrupt company’s crews
4 September 2009
Work by ITF inspectors and affiliated unions has been rewarded this week as two more crews on ships formerly owned by the bankrupt Eastwind company get their pay and tickets home.
Eastwind owned around 63 vessels when it went under. Some of these have been sold, some arrested. The ITF was called in by the crews of several of these, and, with payments made today to the crew of the Annapurna and due in the next few days to that of the Azov Wind, has been instrumental in resolving all of them.
ITF Maritime Coordinator Steve Cotton said: “Picking up the pieces of the Eastwind collapse is a difficult but not impossible situation. The ITF is one of the organisations – including agents, banks, port authorities, lawyers and unions – looking for a solution, and the contact between us and them has paid off in the successes that each week are making a very bad state of affairs a little bit better.”
In Wellington, New Zealand, the crew of the Annapurna today received nine months owed pay and tickets home following intervention by ITF inspector Graham MacLaren and the Maritime Union of New Zealand. In Panama the crew of the Azov Wind are expecting a similar payout after a sustained effort by Chilean inspector Juan Villalon
The ITF has successfully assisted the crews of seven Eastwind ships so far, and continues to work with all concerned to lessen the impact of the bankruptcy on workers onboard the former Eastwind’s vessels.
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