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Former P&O staff and RMT members block the road leading to the Port of Dover as P&O Ferries suspended sailings and handed 800 seafarers immediate severance notices, saying: ‘Our survival is dependent on making swift and significant changes’
UNIONS slammed “one of the most shameful acts” in British industrial history today as P&O ferries were reportedly evicting staff from vessels in handcuffs after 800 workers were fired without notice.
Nautilus International and RMT, which instructed their shocked members to remain on board, said many refused to leave their ships in protest after they appeared to have been told about the sudden redundancies on a video call.
Bosses want to replace the staff with cheaper agency workers from overseas, the RMT said.
MARTYN GRAY asks TUC congress to endorse measures that would help stop the present exploitation of seafarers
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’
