NO TO THE MAGNA CARTA FOR SEAFARERS CHAPTER 18 We are not against the bill, While we support the Magna Carta and the rights embodied in the Maritime Labor Convention 2006 through the transposition of the Convention requirements into law, we strongly believe that there should be no room for education and training in the consolidated bill. We believe that the Magna Carta should focus on seafarers' rights related to conditions of work such as the right to a decent workplace. This is what the MLC 2006 stands for. If the bill is signed into law as it is currently written, PAMI claimed it will restrict the supply of cadets and future seafarers. In the proposed bill, maritime schools are. required to have training ships or simulators, and enter into agreements with shipping companies for the required shipboard training of their students. The schools are also to limit student admissions to 150 percent of the number that the schools can deploy for on-board training (OBT). In a press conference, PAMI, which is composed of 73 schools, said the provisions under Chapter XVIII on Shipboard Training of Cadets may lead to higher tuition, closure of manning agencies, and reduction of crew members. For PAMI, the Magna Carta for Filipino Seafarers should not cover students but only professional seafarers. It also lamented the demanding requirements for schools such as training ships. students are sons and daughters of farmers, construction workers, tricycle drivers, and market vendors. (10 put this as a requirement, we have no resources but to increase the tuition fee.) -PAMI From P25,000 per term, the tuition may increase to P200,000, according to Manglicmot. "Ang pangalawa na option is to close the program. Kung mag-close ang program, magkakaroon tayo ng domino effect," Chapter XVIII of MCFS should be removed BAYAN MUNA DEMANDS THE SCRAPPING OF ANTI-SEAFARER AND ANTI-FILIPINO PROVISIONS IN THE MAGNA CARTA BILL Calls on seafarers and maritime schools to unite and oppose pro-foreign shipowner provisions Bayan Muna Chairman Neri Colmenares today urged the Marcos administration to scrap the onerous provisions in the stalled Magna Carta for Filipino Seafarers bill as these are favoring the rights of foreign ship owners rather than Filipino seafarers. "The unprecedented declaration of Malacanang that the Magna Carta for Seafarers Bill has been recalled "for review" only confirms the assertion of Bayan Muna that the bill was rushed without consulting 8,248 stakeholders. The bill's escrow provision, which declared that whatever compensation for injuries won by a seafarers will be withheld if shipowners appeal the decision, is clearly advantageous to the shipowner and disastrous to the seafarer. How can an injured and jobless seaman feed his family, while his rich employer-shipowner appeals the case? Kung gayon, ang Magna Carta ay hindi totoong batas para sa kapakanan ng seafarers kundi batas para sa mga employers at dayuhang ship owners" said Bayan Muna Chairman Neri Colmenares. "Dapat ibasura ang provision ng escrow o bond na magpapahirap lang sa mga seamen sa isang tunay na Magna Carta." "Another issue against the Magna Carta was raised by maritime schools, on the requirement that maritime institutions should buy training ships and other expensive equipment as part of their required training of maritime students. A training ship costs hundreds of millions which ordinary schools cannot afford. This kind of imposition will only make it costly for maritime students, who will ultimately shoulder this increase in the cost of education, to pay for their maritime studies. Ang Magna Carta ay hindi lang anti-seafarers, anti-maritime students pa. This anti-Filipino maritime school provision should also be scrapped from the Magna Carta bill," said Colmenares. "The recommendation of the government for maritime school #notompcs18 #seaman #seafarer #marino #maritime #mpcfcanaman #mpcflegazpi #marines #mariknows #marinotiktok