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RMT general secretary MICK LYNCH explains why the union are calling on the travelling public to ‘Boycott P&O’ and to support its protests at ports across the country
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THE sacking of 800 P&O workers in March shocked and appalled the entire trade union movement.
The callousness of the decision with no thought towards the livelihoods it would destroy or the inevitable damage it would wreak on a struggling industry was not something we’d seen in Britain for many years.
CEO Peter Hebblethwaite admitted under a grilling examination by exasperated MPs that he knew that the company was violating the law. He went on to justify this flagrant breach of employment law by saying no union would have accepted the company’s terms.
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