Trade unions and workers not part of the agreement – Klazen

Stefanus Nashama During the engagements with the trade unions and fishing companies on Friday at Walvis Bay, the Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Derek Klazen, said unions and workers are not part of the agreement signed between the fishing companies and the government. The agreement signed between the government and the fishing companies is that of ‘the government employment redressing programme’ which aims to employ the fishermen who lost their jobs since 2015. The agreement also included Namsov workers, who experienced job cuts after the drastic reduction of horse mackerel quota allocations, and an estimated 1 000 fishermen who…