P&O Ferries sacks workers and docks ships

[hitmouse]

They have fucked over the workers in the UK where they can but not in France where they can't.

Yeah, but is that cos of the legal framework, or is it cos they know the French are more likely to do this?
‘Boss-Napping’ Returns as French Workers Seize Managers at Renault Factory

Why are French workers so fond of kidnapping their bosses?

Any naval architects on here who knows if modern commercial ships have sea cocks?

They have what now?

 

[Duncan2]

Coventry Unite told me on several occasions that Employment Law formerly the Law of Master and Servant " is shit".I think that if this Company get away with this and they are not taken to the cleaners by RMT Union lawyers no punitive damages etc that will be definitive proof that indeed our employment laws are utter shite!

 

[not henry]

Ok, so they are firing and hiring, but fire and hire is not what they are doing. What are they doing then?

Fire and hire was generally looked on as the same workforce getting fired and being offered new contracts. This is just fire and the company already have an alternative workforce in the wings ready to move into the jobs.

 

[StoneRoad]

I wonder if you were a long experienced engineering officer or hand how easy it would be to scuttle one of those big Ro-Ro ships. Any naval architects on here who knows if modern commercial ships have sea cocks?

Now that probably would be something you could get nicked for, but the pictures on world wide TV might be worth it...

BiB - yup, all ships, big & small, old & new have 'em.

Failing operating those devices ...

... sledgehammer, meet pipe [incoming seawater for cooling] [as per scuttling in Scapa Flow in 1919]

 

[Orang Utan]

It’s almost as if there should be a law against firing and hiring….

 

[tim]

How did these nefarious fuckers manage to hire 800 replacement staff without it being noticed? If the new employees are non-British nationals on low salaries, how were they able to get into the UK with all the post-Brexit regulations preventing people from coming into the UK to take up jobs with low salaries? What are the safety implications of crewing large passenger ferries in busy international shipping lanes with entire crews who are new to both the vessels and the routes?

 

[AmateurAgitator]

The ferry company offices need to be occupied.

 

[Orang Utan]

The ferry company offices need to be occupied.

The ferries need to be occupied. There’s thousands of people right now who might need free transport across the channel and these would come in handy as menschtransport (if that’s a word)

 

[Humberto]

Dunno hijacking a ferry full of people sounds easy when you put it like that.

 

[kenny g]

DP world own London Gateway in lovely Thurrock. Within site of Fobbing, one of the hearts of the peasant's revolt.

 

[likesfish]

Dp has revenue of £8billion
Paid OUT £240 MILLION IN DIVIDENDS
wanted a £150 million from the goverment to "safeguard jobs"
Were paid £15 million in furlough payments.

 

[redcogs]

A naked class war is being waged against PO workers. Its crucial that the unions respond with occupations and sympathy strikes. Otherwise we will be truly fucked.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Is there a way of preventing P&O ships sailing? like a dinghy locking on whilst its in port?

 

[teqniq]

Hmmm. If the main text of the tweet is true and the vermin knew then they are very much complicit:

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Has the cancerous piece of shit on the redundancy video been identified?

 

[teqniq]

Has the cancerous piece of shit on the redundancy video been identified?

No, I don't think so but...

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Has the cancerous piece of shit on the redundancy video been identified?

Mr Goode

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Excuse the source, but good point

 

[hitmouse]

Is there a way of preventing P&O ships sailing? like a dinghy locking on whilst its in port?

I had been sort of wondering what level of co-operation from port/dock workers are required for them to depart and arrive at places, and if there's still enough organisation that dock workers would refuse to touch their ships?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Excuse the source, but good point

is that the same Mr Raab that couldn't get his arse off the sun lounger to evacuate people from Kabul?

 

[StoneRoad]

Technically, I think that ships entering busy ports with bridge officers who are unfamiliar with that port need a pilot ...

 

[killer b]

Excuse the source, but good point

this is the context that makes both sides of the house being up in arms meaningless.

 

[A380]

is that the same Mr Raab that couldn't get his arse off the sun lounger to evacuate people from Kabul?

No, if you remember his holiday had nothing to with his decision not to return to the uk to help save lives and we know that to be true because at the time ‘the sea was closed’.

Perhaps this is his revenge on the sea?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

No, if you remember his holiday had nothing to with his decision not to return to the uk to help save lives and we know that to be true because at the time ‘the sea was closed’.

Perhaps this is his revenge on the sea?

The Lib Dems are gunning for his seat and I have to admit that were I still living in Walton I would hold my nose and vote for them.

 

[Chz]

Edit:
Point was already made, no sense going on about it.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Edit:
Point was already made, no sense going on about it.

Oh look, perhaps this one will explain exactly what laws changed since Brexit to allow this to happen?

 

[Orang Utan]

Can we get Raab to close the sea again to prevent the ferries from embarking?

 

[Chz]

That's not the point at all. The point is that the claim brexit would protect workers' rights is utter bullshit. We've always had fewer rights than, for example, the French, and we've continued to have fewer rights and you don't need a crystal ball to predict that it's going to continue that way for a long, long time.
It's not brexit's fault, it's more the ridiculous claims made by the RMT/ASLEF at the time really grating.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Things were shit before brexit and I was poor - things are still shit after brexit and I'm poor.

 

[The39thStep]

That's not the point at all. The point is that the claim brexit would protect workers' rights is utter bullshit. We've always had fewer rights than, for example, the French, and we've continued to have fewer rights and you don't need a crystal ball to predict that it's going to continue that way for a long, long time.
It's not brexit's fault, it's more the ridiculous claims made by the RMT/ASLEF at the time really grating.

Fantastic. 800 workers sacked on the spot , by a multi million company , which the Tories knew about but kept silent , private security brought in with handcuffs and you want to criticise the RMT ( and apparently ASLEF) for its position five years ago in a referendum on leaving the EU?

Hang your head in shame pal.