Three of the issue on the table have been settled, but things came to a halt over the percentage of catch values deducted to cover fuel costs before shares are calculated. This is currently 30% and unions want it reduced to 27% so that shares are reckoned on 73% of catch values. The seamen\u2019s tax breaks that were abolished in 2009 are also a stumbling block and the unions are demanding a daily rate to compensate for this loss.<\/p>\n
According to the unions, the owners\u2019 federation has refused to budge on what they feel are justified claims.<\/p>\n
Vessel owners\u2019 federation SFS has responded by stating that the three unions involved are responsible for significant damage to the national economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe demands that the three unions have put forward to have been listened to and there has been a strong will on SFS\u2019s part to meet them,\u201d said an SFS spokesperson. \u201cIt is clear that it is not possible to agree to all of their demands.\u201d<\/p>\n
The unions state that it is a disappointment that negotiations have come to a halt, even though progress has been made and the negotiating delegations have worked well together.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe owners are not prepared to meet the seamen\u2019s main demands and this is the reason for talks running aground,\u201d a union spokesman said.<\/p>\n
No new meeting between the parties has been scheduled so far, although by law this has to take place within two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Progress towards a settlement between Icelandic seamen and vessel owners came to an end yesterday when the seamen\u2019s unions walked away from the negotiating table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10274,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272\/revisions\/10274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10272"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}