{"id":1861,"date":"2008-12-27T13:36:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T13:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2008-12-27T13:36:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T13:36:18","slug":"fishermen-get-more-pay-and-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2008\/12\/fishermen-get-more-pay-and-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishermen get more pay and holidays."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Provided by Les Howard<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An award by the Trawler Fishing Industry Joint Industrial Council last week gave the country&#8217;s fishermen a wage increase of 1\/- a day and three extra days holiday. Mr J P O&#8217;Donnell, Fleetwood secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, which represents the port&#8217;s 1200 fishermen, welcomed the awards as a &#8220;step in the right direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not as much as we expected but pretty fair all round,&#8221; was how he summed it up.<\/p>\n<p>The awards came after deadlock had been reached between the trawler owners and the union. The application for more pay and longer holidays had been lodged in June. A month later the trawler owners had offered 9d a day more but no offer on holidays.<\/p>\n<p>The men will now get 24 days annual holiday including seven as compensation for Bank Holidays which crews at sea have to work.<br \/>\nThe last award was just over 12 months ago when the men got an extra 1\/6 a day plus an extra 6d in the \u00a3100 on a vessel&#8217;s gross earnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provided by Les Howard An award by the Trawler Fishing Industry Joint Industrial Council last week gave the country&#8217;s fishermen a wage increase of 1\/- a day and three extra days holiday. Mr J P O&#8217;Donnell, Fleetwood secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, which represents the port&#8217;s 1200 fishermen, welcomed the awards as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}