Filipino crew "on $150 a week" replace Portland's seafarers: protest grows

By Tony Wright
Updated November 28 2015 - 1:28am, first published 12:16am
Save Our Ships: crewmen on the MV Portland protest. Photo: Tekko Roos
Save Our Ships: crewmen on the MV Portland protest. Photo: Tekko Roos
Crewmen on the MV Portland protest. Photo: Tekko Roos
Crewmen on the MV Portland protest. Photo: Tekko Roos

Filipino crew members aboard a foreign ship chartered to haul alumina from Western Australia to Alcoa's smelter in Portland, Victoria, are each to be paid about $US150 ($207) a week, International Transport Workers Federation says.

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