The 2005 International Labour Conference did not adopt the new proposed Convention on work in the fishing sector. As the whole Employers' Group and a considerable number of government delegates abstained from voting, the quorum was not reached. Workers are disappointed as the Convention aimed at covering more than 90% of the world's fish workers, both in the fields of social security and work environment. Employers described the proposed Convention as prescriptive, inflexible, and impractical for developing countries to ratify it. How much did the Tsunami 2004 influence the result? What kind of standard creation process would suit for the new, globalized world?
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