P&O Ferries suspends all services

[Colgates_shaving_foam]

The ships should be impounded until p&o reverse the decision and legislation introduced to prevent this happening.

If I was one of the sacked employees I certainly wouldn't be getting off the ship, they could all get together and make the ships unsailable by refusing to disembark.

 

[Nero]

What does 'like' mean. I worked in Spain for 12 years and Germany ( only for a few weeks) they are identical to the UK in their outlook, the others I have no experience in. But I cannot see any real evidence they are different.

I had this battle yesterday. What is the alternative to neo liberalism apart from rationing?

So there's no alternative to making everything private? Thatcher ideologically privatised things like utilities which are not private in other European countries. Neoliberalism is about removing the state almost completely from society. It's wrong.

 

[Same_as_before]

I fully agree it's wrong, how do you re nationalise them?

 

[clay]

What is the alternative to neo liberalism apart from rationing

Just seven days ago, DP World (who own P&O) announced their annual profits had increased yet again and now sit at $896m.

Maybe one "alternative" is to force them to spend a tiny fraction of that profit on rewarding and protecting the workers who generated it in the first place?

 

[Randy]

No it’s not, it’s about protecting profits and shareholders and discarding staff to hide the fact that the exec’s who run the place, as with many other companies, are sh1t!!!

I stand corrected.

 

[Same_as_before]

Just seven days ago, DP World (who own P&O) announced their annual profits had increased yet again and now sit at $896m.

Maybe one "alternative" is to force them to spend a tiny fraction of that profit on rewarding and protecting the workers who generated it in the first place?

Again I agree, but you are aware that profits pay for new ships.

 

[Keelo]

I invested over £700 of my cash with them a month ago for May sailing from Hull.....if I'd have known this there'd be no chance of me going with them...

 

[clay]

Again I agree, but you are aware that profits pay for new ships.

Do you really think if they replace full employees with agency staff it's purely so they can buy new ferries?!

 

[Alexander Supertramp]

Used to love that overnight Hull - Zeebrugge ferry as a kid… Start of our summer hols

 

[The_Unicorn]

The ships should be impounded until p&o reverse the decision and legislation introduced to prevent this happening.

If I was one of the sacked employees I certainly wouldn't be getting off the ship, they could all get together and make the ships unsailable by refusing to disembark.

The have a team of 'handcuff' trained security stood by to ensure staff leave

 

[Same_as_before]

Do you really think if they replace full employees with agency staff it's purely so they can buy new ferries?!

No, I was simply stating a fact.

 

[ThePrisoner]

So are P&O Uberising the ferry industry and making it a gig economy? If they can do this everyone else will soon follow.

 

[Same_as_before]

So are P&O Uberising the ferry industry and making it a gig economy? If they can do this everyone else will soon follow.

Yes.

 

[Same_as_before]

I can't see why we should not nationalise Ferry's Trains and Buses tomorrow, it would cost pennies.

 

[Colgates_shaving_foam]

The have a team of 'handcuff' trained security stood by to ensure staff leave

Imagine them daring to pull something like this in France?

Those ships would have been scuttled by now and the dock on fire.

 

[Ziggy]

They’re at it again…88-89 on repeat. The seaman held out for 16 months and returned to work beaten.
The year before,March 87 The Herald went down 191 passengers and crew died. In December 87 P&O told NUS they were going ahead with changes.

“ In December 1987 the company told the workers' trade union, the National Union of Seamen (NUS), that they intended to reduce the annual wage bill of £35 million by £6 million by cutting 500 out of 2,300 jobs and reducing earnings by an average of £25 a week. Furthermore they would make seafarers work an extra one month a year and impose, in some cases, a work rota where some people would be working for 72 hours continuously”
Lot of locals worked on the ferries…it was a family thing. Some of them had lost family members and friends on the Herald….there was a huge sense of betrayal.
….and so it goes.

 

[Brian Marwood]

I fail to see how the staff can be made redundant as their job isn't techincally redundant. Surely this is unfair dismissal for anyone with over two years service?

 

[ThePrisoner]

I fail to see how the staff can be made redundant as their job isn't techincally redundant. Surely this is unfair dismissal for anyone with over two years service?

I assume most of them are on a week or maybe four weeks notice and they have been given that notice.

 

[Same_as_before]

They’re at it again…88-89 on repeat. The seaman held out for 16 months and returned to work beaten.
The year before,March 87 The Herald went down 191 passengers and crew died. In December 87 P&O told NUS they were going ahead with changes.

“ In December 1987 the company told the workers' trade union, the National Union of Seamen (NUS), that they intended to reduce the annual wage bill of £35 million by £6 million by cutting 500 out of 2,300 jobs and reducing earnings by an average of £25 a week. Furthermore they would make seafarers work an extra one month a year and impose, in some cases, a work rota where some people would be working for 72 hours continuously”
Lot of locals worked on the ferries…it was a family thing. Some of them had lost family members and friends on the Herald….there was a huge sense of betrayal.
….and so it goes.

It's not a post where pressing a like seems enough, I agree with every word.

 

[uncle_rico]

If they are 40% Russian owned, then surely there will be sanctions on the owners, which will in turn affect their operations and finances?