The Canadian shipping company Teekay plans to replace about 200 of their Norwegian employees with sailors from the Philippines, apparently because of the wages, which is about a 10th of the union-stated salary of the Norwegian sailors.
According to the Norwegian sailor union it is a catastrophe because it is almost impossible to find new jobs to the laid-off workers, especially the older ones.
“This is well planned social dumping of our members from Teekay, they have found a leak in the regulations, which make it possible to use foreign workers on Norway” it states.
