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Protesters outside DP World HQ in Victoria, London, after 800 seafarers were handed immediate severance notices
THE government must nationalise ferry services to hit bosses “where it hurts,” transport union TSSA demanded today after P&O Ferries sacked 800 workers without notice.
The move would “safeguard trade and travel” and send the strongest message that Britain “will not stand for bully boy tactics,” the union’s general secretary Manuel Cortes stressed.
In unprecedented scenes on Thursday, P&O Ferries, which was purchased by Dubai-based DP World in 2019, fired hundreds of staff with immediate effect via a pre-recorded video message, citing financial pressures.
A just transition to Great British Railways and a clean and safe railway for all is not only desirable but also necessary. MARYAM ESLAMDOUST explains
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’
