The last time I paid the crew's salary, I made a vote, salary**, which one do you think is more reliable?A total of 144 people participated in the voting (including myself), and the final result was that the shipping e-home and shipping ** were about the same, and the Shanghai Shipping Exchange was a little bit almost meaningful, so Bai Xiaosheng didn't say much about the manuscript. 
Of course, there will also be crew members who leave a message to feedback, the salary list is not authoritative at all, there should be a correct orientation, and even some crew members bluntly said, "The salary is the company's final say, and I will laugh at this **."
Whether the company can reduce wages, of course, can, but the crew may not agree. What happens if the crew doesn't agree?In fact, it is not very good, it is just a violation of the labor law, and the salary reduction is a change in the content of the contract, and it is generally necessary to re-sign the labor contract. (Therefore, normal enterprises generally know that salary cuts are handled through friendly negotiation, and if any company acts recklessly, it is recommended that the company's personnel be opened first, and the labor law is not understood at all).
Article 35 [Modification of Labor Contract] The employer and the worker may change the content of the labor contract if they reach a consensus through consultation.If the company unilaterally reduces wages, the employee may terminate the labor contract in writing on the grounds of "failure to pay labor remuneration in full and on time", and request the employer to pay the corresponding economic compensation according to the number of years of service. If the employer does not pay, the employee can apply for labor arbitration at the labor bureau.
Of course, the law is the law, and the reality is the reality. Most crew members don't have the courage or even the energy to actually defend their rights and interests under the labor contract law. Not long ago, Dalian Maritime University did the preliminary research work on the legislation of the seafarer law, and only then did it issue a research notice, and many crew members were boiling, as if the legislation was imminent, and the status of the crew was confirmed by the law. I poured cold water on it, saying that now it is not a lack of law, but a lack of implementation. (Of course, I don't agree with such a high standard of implementation according to the Labor Contract Law, which is really too hurtful for the company, hurts the soil, and is not fortunate for the vegetation that grows on it).
The reader is invited to judge for himself, but if the legitimate rights and interests are harmed, the individual still supports the crew to cooperate. (Of course, the difficulty of rights protection is another matter, not the focus of today's **).
To get back to the point, to answer the question, which position has the most outrageous drop in crew salaries in the past year (from September 2022 to August 2023?).
In order to better answer this question, I obtained the data from the Shanghai Shipping Exchange on 2022 08 30 and 2023 08 29 respectively (at least its compilation logic is stable and relatively scientific, of course, its sample representativeness is worth scrutinizing), and after some data processing, the following figure was obtained.
The next thing is to look at the picture and speak, in the past year, 1,The largest absolute salary cut is for the dry bulk carrier chief engineer position, with a salary cut of up to 872 US dollars;The largest salary cut was for the position of a sailor on a dry bulk carrier, with a drop of 2942%。(all on bulk carriers).
2. The absolute amount of salary reduction is the oil ** pipe wheel, which only dropped by only 58 US dollars, so it has been called the smallest salary cut.
3. On different types of ships, the positions with the most salary reductions are: container ship sailor (-632 US dollars), dry bulk carrier large engineer (-872 US dollars), oil tanker chief engineer (-554 US dollars), chemical tanker chief engineer (-532 US dollars);
4. On different types of ships, the positions with the largest salary reductions are, container ship sailor (-25.).54%), dry bulk carrier sailor (-29.).42%), tanker waiter (-21.).93%), chemical tanker sailors (-2016%）
If we fill in the color of the pay cuts of more than 15% in the past year, we get the following picture and this conclusion:
The pay cut is a fact, and the largest reduction is mainly for ordinary crew members (boatswain, chief mechanic, water operator, chef and waiter), hey, ordinary crew members take on too much!This is especially true in dry bulk carriers.
Oil tankers and chemical tankers as a whole seem to be more resilient(Of course, if you're a plumber and waiter, you'll have to drop 20%), and many jobs are down less than 5%. Obviously, this has something to do with the fact that people didn't rise very fiercely at the beginning
And if we color all the absolute salary cuts of more than 500, it is a different picture:
Most of the positions in container and dry bulk carriers have been reduced by more than 500 US dollars, while the only positions of chief engineer and sailor operator with a salary cut of more than 500 are those of the chief engineer and the chief engineer (what grade is the water operator, sit at the same table with the chief engineer?).
The amount of chefs and waiters is relatively small, after all, chefs and waiters only have a few dollars!
In addition, it is worth mentioning that the Shanghai Shipping Exchange has not released the salary data of electricians since November 2022, I don't know if the electrician didn't ask for it, or if it was taken out by other part-time positions, I don't know, and there is no official explanation, or I found it by accident when processing the data.
Finally back to the title,The most outrageous drop was made by the sailors on dry bulk carriers, with a drop of 2942%！That's right, it's still the waterman who suffers.
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