Þessar fréttir eru í skoskum fjölmiðlum af meðferð móðurfélags Arctic Fish á starfsfólki sínu: ,,Verr farið með fólkið en fiskinn“ segir í fyrirsögninni.
Einsog við vitum eiga eldislaxarnir ömurlega tilveru í sjókvíunum.
Þessi iðnaður er afleitur fyrir umhverfið, lífríkið eldislaxana og starfsfólkið sem vinnur við hann.
The Herald fjallar um meðferð Mowi á starfsfólki sínu:
A report from a workers union has highlighted health and safety issues at a salmon fish processing plant in Rosyth, Fife, saying it left them feeling workers “are treated worse than the fish”.
The Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union has (BTFAWU) outlined a list of concerns about the health and safety of the workforce at the Mowi plant and and concluded that health and safety is ‘quite possibly’ being treated as a ‘secondary consideration’.
BFAWU General Secretary Sarah Woolley said: „Every worker going to work should feel that their health, safety and well-being is sacrosanct and a central priority of their employer. But, in our time representing workers at Mowi we have found that our members at Mowi are not treated with the respect and the dignity that every worker deserves.
“This report outlines many of the issues we have concerns about, based on the work we have done with members and speaking directly with them about their observations and experiences. We truly hope that our report acts as a wake up call to management at the plant.”
The report, based on testimony of workers and union officials who represent employees at Mowi, revealed a long list of complaints including “lack of toilets, time limited toilet breaks, workers having to get toilet cover before they go, inadequate canteen facilities including a lack of seating for workers often working 12 hour shifts.”
Other concerns included “lack of mitigation to help workers working in cold working temperatures for long periods of time and manual handling practices that could be resulting in injuries from repetitive work are some of the concerns raised in the report.
Strong concerns were also expressed about their sickness absence policy, deemed “unfair because it gives discretion to managers about whether a worker gets sick pay or not if they are off sick”.
In some cases staff spoke of having had sick pay withdrawn even if they are off work due to workplace accidents and injuries.