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P&O Ferries sacks workers and docks ships

and I'm not the only one getting fed up with threads here turning into twitter feeds.

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?
 
Sounds like the Cairnryan demo/blockade was a bit eventful:

Also a report from Larne:
 
Interesting [?] move ... if a bit late.


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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P&O Ferries will not face criminal proceedings for mass sacking of staff
Sat 20 Aug 2022
Tory MP Huw Merriman, who chairs the Commons transport committee, called for legislation to ensure that a company like P&O could not do the same thing again.

“The disgrace is on P&O but the disgrace will be on parliament if we don’t fix it and stop it from happening again,” Merriman said.

He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “The law isn’t strong enough and as MPs we need to legislate to make sure that it is.

Nautilus International, a union which represents maritime professionals, said the Insolvency Service’s decision would be a blow to the “discarded” workers.
 
Same amount of sympathy as for the Tory MPs complaining about sewage dumping when they voted against it. They could have done something, and they didn't.
 
RMT/Nautilus demo in London on Wednesday marking the two-year anniversary:
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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
 
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.
 
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.

 
What are people getting concerned about? It's a competitive marketplace - the workers are paid competitive wages and the CEO is paid a competitive salary 🤷‍♂️

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