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Protesters surrounded Condor Ferries' Portsmouth offices yesterday over a shipping loophole the company exploits to pay crew members just £2.35 per hour.
Documents seen by the Star reveal that Condor pays Ukrainian crew members on its ships, which carry freight between Portsmouth, Gurney and Jersey, just £28.19 per 12-hour shift.
And the company is also facing an uprising across the channel from workers on its French fast ferry services.
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JOE GILL appreciates a lucid demonstration of how capital today is an outgrowth of the colonial economy
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’