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P&O Ferries vessel Spirit of Britain (bottom) arriving back at the Port of Dover in Kent
ANOTHER P&O-style mass redundancy scandal is likely unless Tory ministers deliver stronger protections for workers, the TUC has warned.
Today marks six months since the disgraced ferry operator embraced “cowboy capitalism” and illegally sacked nearly 800 seafarers without notice or consultation.
Despite widespread outrage at what the TUC branded the “nadir for the treatment of workers in recent years,” company bosses have escaped criminal proceedings and DP World, the firm’s Dubai-based owner, has posted record half-year profits.
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
