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People take part in a demonstration against the dismissal of P&O workers at the Port of Liverpool, March 31, 2022
GOVERNMENT pledges to act against ferry operator P&O after it sacked 800 seafarers in Britain were “all bluster,” a seafarers’ delegate told TUC Northern conference on Saturday.
This month marks the second anniversary of the sackings and the seafarers’ replacement with overseas workers — paid less than £5 an hour and working 12-hour shifts with no time off for months in prison-like conditions.
Despite promises to plug the legal loophole in Britain which allowed P&O’s owner the Dubai-based DP World to sack and replace its mariners on March 17 2022, nothing has changed.
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’
