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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.
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