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International Maritime Employers' Committee - IMEC (ID: 14130)
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IMEC is a group of international shipping companies which co-operate to negotiate collective bargaining agreements covering seafarers' wages and conditions with trade unions in the Philippines, the Indian Sub-Continent and Eastern Europe. Amer Ship Management Anglo Eastern ASP Ship Management Atlantic Marine LP Azalea Maritime Bibby Line Bottiglieri Di Navigazione Spa C F Sharp Shipping Charles M Willie Chemikalien Seetransport Chevron Shipping Christian F Ahrenkiel Coeclerici Columbia Ship Management Costa Crociere Dannebrog Rederi Delta Marine Personnel Dobson Fleet Management Dockendale Shipping Co. Ltd. Dorchester Maritime E R Schiffahrt Enterprise Shipping Epsilon Hellas Euroship Services Ltd. Finbeta Fleet Management General Marine Services Corporation Liberia Gibson Gas Tankers Graig Ship Management Hanseatic Shipping Histria Shipmanagement Srl IC Shipmanagement Ltd. Intern l Marine Transportation Interorient Navigation Intership Navigation Co. Ltd. IUM Shipmanagement James Fishers Kuwait Oil Tanker C Latvian Shipping Company Lauritzen Kosen Leda Shipping Lisco Baltic Service Livestock Transport & Trading Luxembourg Marine Services London Ship Managers Maersk Marlow Navigation Mineralien Schiffart Murmansk Shipping Co. Norbulk Shipping Norden Northern Shipping Company Novoship Orinoco Marine Consultancy India Plc OSG Ship Management Osterreichischer Lloyd P&O Nedlloyd Premuda Tankers Princess Cruises Ravenscroft Shipping Inc. Scorpio Marine Ltd. Sea Crew Rotterdam BV Seaarland Shipping Management Seaspan Ship Management Ltd. Shell Ship Management Southern Shipmanagement Co. SA Swire Pacific Ship Management Thome Ship Management Torm United Arab Shipping Co. Unicom Management Services Uniteam Marine Ltd. Univan Ship Management Ltd. V Ships Wallem Shipmanagement World-Wide Shipping Managers Subscriptions The annual budget is agreed by IMEC members and the costs are shared equally between them. Membership subscriptions are based on a flat fee payable annually in advance. IMEC: The objectives summarised: * Forum to discuss world-wide wages and employment conditions; * Participate in regular discussions with ITF; * Monitor labour developments at ILO and IMO; * Co-ordinate views on collective bargaining agreements; * Represent the views of employers in negotiations, nationally and internationally; * Advise on industrial relations law; * Advise on strikes, boycotts and other industrial action affecting members; * Promote good employment practice, an effective safety culture and high training standards. For further information, contact: Secretary General IMEC 12 Carthusian Street London EC1M 6EZ Tel +44 (0) 20 7417 8844 Fax +44 (0) 20 7417 8877 Email imec@marisec.org www.marisec.org/imec IMEC: International Maritime Employers Committee The International Maritime Employers Committee (IMEC) is the only international employers organisation dedicated exclusively to maritime industrial relations. IMEC Members IMEC members are individual shipping companies, both owners and managers, operating all types of ships, including dry bulk, container, cruise liners, livestock carriers, reefers and tankers. Member companies employ over 60,000 seafarers of 50 different nationalities and operate ships registered in 43 countries. The current membership list is attached. Objectives IMEC objectives are to: provide a forum for employers to exchange views and information on seafarers wages and conditions world-wide keep abreast of developments in international regulation of all matters concerning the employment of seafarers form a robust, active and effective employers' voice in wage negotiations encourage, support and where appropriate co-ordinate the development of voluntary collective bargaining arrangements between employers and seafarers organisations ensure greater stability and certainty over employment costs and to avoid local disputes and ship boycotts provide advice and information to members on industrial relations legislation world-wide and on the impact of strikes and boycott actions promote good employment practices and high standards of training and safety among seafarers of all nationalities employed by IMEC members Operations In November 1999 IMEC and the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) signed the Constitution of the Joint Negotiating Forum which inaugurated the first industry-wide collective bargaining system. The agreements which resulted from the first round of negotiations between IMEC and ITF, which included contractual clauses covering employment conditions as well as wage rates, covered more than 100,000 seafarers of all nationalities serving on ships registered in countries designated by ITF as flags of convenience to which ITF Special Agreements apply. This Agreement was effective from 1 January 2001. Apart from the periodic wage negotiations, the Forum has regular joint meetings to discuss a range of other issues covering industrial relations and labour affairs. These include ITF policies on beneficial ownership, the Athens Policy and use of the AB for establishing the benchmark wage rate. All IMEC members are invited to attend these meetings as the employer representatives and ITF nominates the seafarer representatives from their affiliated unions. IMEC also maintains close links with employers organisations in major labour-supplying countries to ensure that the views of its members are fully represented in local pay negotiations. Additionally, IMEC members attend the local negotiations in India, the Philippines, Poland and Sri Lanka to ensure continuity between negotiations at the Forum and locally, as well as to maintain continuity between the local negotiations in the different countries. In particular, regular contact is maintained with: * the Maritime Association of Shipowners Shipmanagers & Agents (MASSA) and the Foreign Owners and Ship Managers Association (FOSMA) in India * the Filipino Association for Mariners Employment Inc. (FAME) in the Philippines * the Maritime Board (Bangladesh) * the Association of Polish Shipping Agents and Shipowners Representatives (APMAR) in Poland * the Ceylon Association of Manning Agents (CASA) Membership Benefits Participation in the normal work of the organisation and the flow of information and advice which result from membership are obviously important benefits. But, in addition, IMEC has negotiated the following benefits with ITF which apply uniquely to IMEC members: * a special disputes procedure to avoid problems which may arise on particular ships from escalating into strikes or boycott actions in port * an IMEC version of the ITF Special Agreement which omits many of the more onerous requirements * a simplified administrative procedure for obtaining ITF Blue Certificates * agreement in principle to the creation of an IMEC Seafarers Welfare Fund Meetings Full meetings of members are held three or four times a year. Additional meetings on specific issues are held as required, for example, to consider questions related to pay negotiations in particular countries. Members are advised on developments between these meetings by regular circulars. Secretariat The IMEC secretariat is based in London and the staff are provided by Maritime International Secretariat Services Ltd. (MARISEC), a specialist organisation created to provide administrative support to international trade and employer associations in the maritime sector . IMEC is a group of international shipping companies which co-operate to negotiate collective bargaining agreements covering seafarers' wages. International Maritime Employers' Committee - IMEC