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British union trawlermen fight monopoly control
Despite great differences in the nature of commercial fishing in the two countries, fishermen in Britain and on the Pacific coast of Canada share many of the same basic problems in their efforts to earn a livelihood.
The view is that of Dave Cairns, fishing industry representative for the two million-member Transport and General Workers Union, expressed in a letter to The Fisherman. Most organized fishermen in Britain's deepsea trawler fleets are TGWU members.
Some of the major concerns facing British trawlermen, as well as the union's proposals for solving them, are outlined in a series of policy documents issued by the TGWU recently.
B.C. fishermen would hear a familiar echo in the British union's charge that monopoly control is the dominant feature of the fishing industry.
Three major companies directly own more than half the 338 trawlers in England and Wales, the union notes, while five other companies own almost two-thirds of the Scottish fleet.
In addition, interlocking directorships between parent and subsidiary companies "further reinforce the control of a small handful of owners."
Among leading monopolies with which TGWU members have to contend are Associated Fisheries and the Boston Group, each operating a "network of companies out of most major ports."
The Boston Group attained notoriety in this country in 1970 by its role in the historic strike for union recognition waged that year by UFAWU members in Nova Scotia.
Acadia Fisheries, one of two foreign-controlled companies which precipitated the strike by refusing to recognize the right of Nova Scotia fishermen to organize, was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boston Group.
Acadia-Boston also was the recipient of almost $13 million worth of public funds in the form of federal and provincial government loans and subsidies.
The Boston Group's track record in Britain is almost as bad, according to the TGWU.
In concert with other major fishing companies, it has succeeded in lining its pockets with public funds while, at the same time, vigorously opposing union campaigns to improve earnings and conditions of fishermen.
The union charges that few industries have pursued the goal of centralizing and integrating their operations "with small regard for the social and economic consequences to their employees."
This process has been accompanied by a campaign in which fishing monopolies have used their political influence "to press successfully for a whole series of government aid schemes — while resisting union demands, reinforced from time to time by public outcry, for fundamental reforms (in the workplace)."
From 1950 to 1975, the union says, fishing companies gouged almost 48 million (roughly $100 million) from the public treasury in direct grants, and a slightly smaller amount in "special government loans."
Little if any of this funding has been used to benefit working fishermen, and conditions in the trawl fleets still constitute "the
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worst and most dangerous working environment of any occupational group."
Deck crews on side trawlers habitually work in excess of 100 hours per week, while conditions on stern freezer trawlers are only "marginally less arduous and hazardous."
According to one authority cited by the union, the fishing industry's extremely high death and accident rate is "merely the outward and visible sign of a system of work and employment which is antiquated, vicious, corrupt and lethal."
Just how lethal it is can be seen in statistics showing that 196 deaths and almost 10,000 injuries occurred between 1958 and 1974 on trawlers 140 feet or more in length.
Workers in the industry also suffer the effects of declining job opportunities, seasonal fluctuations in employment, and an overall jobless rate ranging between eight and 12 percent, the union says.
Fishermen members of the TGWU are concentrated in the home ports of the deepsea trawler fleets, including Aberdeen, where union organization is close to 100 percent, and Hull, where 75 percent of trawlermen are union members.
Inshore fishermen, however, remain largely unorganized.
The TGWU fishing section currently is pressing a campaign centred around demands that include:
— Adoption of a uniform system, administered jointly by union and employers, for the registration and hiring of fulltime fishermen at each port, thereby eliminating 'shape-up' hiring practices characterized as a "throwback to the Victorian era."
— A basic annual wage for all registered fishermen with a guaranteed 'fall-back' rate payable when there are no job vacancies in the fleet.
— A supplementary industrywide pension plan and improvements in holiday pay and sickness benefits.
— Improved safety standards and tougher policing of all safety requirements.
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