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Seafarers call for end to cruise-line owners’ pregnancy test ‘bullshit’
Outgoing RMT Women's Advisory Committee chair Chrissie Willetts, incoming chair Marie Harrington, committee member Jennifer Aggrey-Finn, ITF maritime coordinator Jacqueline Smith, RMT president Michelle Rodgers

by Conrad Landin
in Dover

FEMALE seafarers must “call bullshit” on mandatory pregnancy testing for cruise-ship workers, a leading trade unionist has said.

International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) maritime co-ordinator Jacqueline Smith said the practice was blatantly discriminatory.

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