Bahnhof Strasse
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P&O Ferries sacks workers and docks ships
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Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Have you been on the Planet Remain thread and raised this concern that you and ‘others’ have about posters just sticking up Twitter posts instead of actually writing something?
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
Sounds like the Cairnryan demo/blockade was a bit eventful:
www.heraldscotland.com
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
Also a report from Larne:
www.thelondoneconomic.com
Man charged with road offences amid Cairnryan P&O protest
A man has been charged with road traffic offences following a P&O demonstration in Cairnryan.
Lorry driver allegedly rammed P&O protest blockade at Scots port as man charged
Witnesses told how the 7.5-tonne vehicle forced protesters to retreat at the entrance to Cairnryan Ferry Port in Dumfries and Galloway.
Also a report from Larne:
'Need more action like this:' Ex P&O workers block entrance at Port
"We’ll be looking to do more and more because we don’t believe those vessels are safe, we’re not happy with what P&O have done to the workforce and the impact that it has had."
www.thelondoneconomic.com
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Interesting [?] move ... if a bit late.
P&O: Government scraps contract over mass sackings
The Home Office said that the P&O agreement with UK Border Force would end "with immediate effect".
www.bbc.co.uk
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Interesting [?] move ... if a bit late.
P&O: Government scraps contract over mass sackings
The Home Office said that the P&O agreement with UK Border Force would end "with immediate effect".www.bbc.co.uk
It looks like a tiny contract, a couple of hundred foot passengers a year to Calais.
Refusing DP World the chance to snap up more UK infrastructure/companies would be more effective, but of course the vermin want a symbol rather than actual action.
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Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Outrage at public contract for firm behind P&O sackings
It comes after DP World is chosen to run a new freeport, despite having sacked 800 workers without notice last year.
www.bbc.co.uk
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
Maybe I just have a filth mind but "DP world" wouldn't be my first choice of business name. Not unless it was that sort of business.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
DP World. They'll fuck you over twice at the same time.
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
RMT/Nautilus demo in London on Wednesday marking the two-year anniversary:
www.megaphone.org.uk
No more P&O Ferries!
Please attend and support the demonstration by RMT, Nautilus and the TUC to mark the second anniversary of P&O Ferries unlawful assault on nearly 800 UK Seafarers’ jobs. Speakers include: Mick Lynch (RMT General Secretary), Paul Nowak (TUC General Secretary), Martyn Gray (Nautilus, Director of...
www.megaphone.org.uk
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Not sure if the dispute between Nautlius & the Isle Of Man Steam Packet was much better than a draw.
But watching from the sidelines was interesting, eventually Manxman entered service.
Although the boat seems to have a few "engineering" issues to resolve alongside the staffing problems
But watching from the sidelines was interesting, eventually Manxman entered service.
Although the boat seems to have a few "engineering" issues to resolve alongside the staffing problems
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
a new law is being signed in France today which prohibits the usage of workers being paid less than the minimum wage and not following the working hours directives on trans channel ferries, so P&O is going to have to change its practices from the last few years hopefully.
the government here says their equivalent law will come into force this summer according to the guardian .
none of which makes up for the fucked up way they treated their workers 2 years ago.
the government here says their equivalent law will come into force this summer according to the guardian .
none of which makes up for the fucked up way they treated their workers 2 years ago.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Yeah we were watching that on the TV last night, disgraceful.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Whilst it's pleasing to see bosses squirm a bit in public, I'd rather see commons committee's exploring why the UK government did none of the things it promised to do at the time when P&O attacked their workforce.
P&O Ferries: new powers to protect maritime workers
P&O Ferries: new powers to protect maritime workers
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Unfortunately for P&O there is a separate government on each side of the Channel the French Law not only sets minimum wages it also sets a maximum of 2 weeks on/2 weeks off for crew living aboard. This isn't an issue for European based crews, they just walk off the ship and catch a bus home at the end of their 2 weeks on. For crews from third world countries they can't spend their 2 weeks downtime in either the EU or UK so would have to be flown home (and back again) at every shift change which would make employing them no cheaper (and quite possibly more expensive) than the crews they replaced.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Here’s an interesting test for Starmer.
Bigoted Saudi capital objecting to being described in factual terms and threatening to withhold investment into the UK ahead of Starmer’s attempt to woo capital next week at his investment conference.
It goes without saying, I hope, that Haigh is absolutely correct in her characterisation of the company. It also goes without saying that she should be backed by her boss in calling out the disgusting employment practises it operates and the treatment of its own workers.
It also raises again the pathetic limits of Labour’s industrial strategy: hoping for growth by attracting some of the worst employers in the world to invest in Britain….
How a critical interview put P&O owner’s £1bn ports deal under threat
www.thetimes.com
Bigoted Saudi capital objecting to being described in factual terms and threatening to withhold investment into the UK ahead of Starmer’s attempt to woo capital next week at his investment conference.
It goes without saying, I hope, that Haigh is absolutely correct in her characterisation of the company. It also goes without saying that she should be backed by her boss in calling out the disgusting employment practises it operates and the treatment of its own workers.
It also raises again the pathetic limits of Labour’s industrial strategy: hoping for growth by attracting some of the worst employers in the world to invest in Britain….
How a critical interview put P&O owner’s £1bn ports deal under threat
How a critical interview put P&O owner’s £1bn ports deal under threat
Louise Haigh, the transport secretary, said that P&O Ferries was a ‘rogue operator’ and her comments overshadowed DP World’s London Gateway container port plans
www.thetimes.com
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ska invita
back on the other side
FT says "the project is still likely to go ahead"...ultimately the Saudi sultans project of buying up the UK will not be stopped by an occasional squeal
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
and, buried within that piece, is the crux of problematic, post-privatisation relationship between the (consolidator) state and financialised capital:
Investment in the UK's port provision and operation are based on nothing more than budgetary headings of asset management companies; there being no way for the state to have any levers on strategic provision or growth. The political superstructure is largely irrelevant with (negative) planning decisions being pretty much the only control in place.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
They're such shits, the Saudis aren't doing this to do the UK a favour they are doing it to extract profit from the UK, fuck 'em off.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Well, exactly.
Long after the UK needs to import their oil, they'll be accumulating wealth from our reliance on them to facilitate the import of EVs, batteries and parts. And the UK's privatised, deregulated ports sector where, unlike most other OECD economies, the state has sold off any interest in the land of the ports, makes operations here particularly vulnerable to regional monopoly exploitation.
teqniq
DisMembered
Absolute tosser:
www.theguardian.com
P&O owner to attend UK investment summit despite minister’s criticism
Keir Starmer rebuked transport secretary, Louise Haigh, for describing P&O Ferries as a ‘rogue operator’
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
Well there's your answer! Starmer demonstrating his usual lack of any political nous and moral backbone!
gosub
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The government is too cosy with P&O’s owners to strengthen workers' rights | Louise Haigh
Never again should any company think they can treat British workers with such contempt, says Labour MP Louise Haigh
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Suspect Andy McDonald would be in bother (again) if he repeated that performance today. He already had the whip withdrawn for repeating the phrase 'from the river to the sea' and only got it back after a fairly abject apology.
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