People protest outside Maritime House, Dover, after P&O Ferries sacked 800 workers without notice on March 17, 2022
THE lack of action by Tory ministers against P&O bosses who unlawfully sacked hundreds of seafarers a year ago is a “national disgrace,” RMT’s Mick Lynch charged today.
Addressing a protest in Westminster ahead of the first anniversary of the scandal later this week, the maritime union’s leader said: “Everyone was outraged but nothing has come up to punish P&O or to protect our people.”
On March 17 2022, the company — owned by Dubai-based DP World — suddenly fired 786 British-based seafarers without union consultation and replaced them with cheaper labour, largely from overseas.
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’
