How do seafarers communicate?
The following report from the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) should be of interest to unions as well as shipowners and manning agents:
Research commissioned by the ITF Seafarers’ Trust has highlighted the need for trade unions to embrace electronic means of communication with their seafarer members. Carried out by London Metropolitan University’s Working Lives Research Institute, the project surveyed 1000 seafarers to find out the best ways to contact them, and how they communicated at sea and on land. (more…)
