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2nd April 2020

Seafarers: Stena Line See Pay Offer Withdrawn After Union Took 'Too Long Deliberating'

The RMT union says it is a 'kick in the teeth' for members but Stena says coronavirus has changed situation. Afloat adds above is the new Stena Estrid berthed at the Port of Holyhead, north Wales from where the ropax ferry operates the core Irish Sea route to Dublin Port.

Operator Stena Line and the Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) union have engaged in a war of words after the ferry giant withdrew its previous pay offer due to the coronavirus crisis.

The ferry firm had offered staff a 2.1% increase - which was accepted by port workers but not the crew who work on the vessels sailing on UK routes, including between Holyhead and Dublin.

But Stena said it withdrew the offer on Friday while RMT said it sent its acceptance letter to the offer on Monday.

The RMT said Stena had told them it was partly their fault, as they took "too long deliberating" - comments the union described as "ridiculous".

More the story from NorthWalesLive here.

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago