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We won’t be letting P&O off the hook
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
Protesters stand outside the P&O building at the Port of Hull, East Yorkshire, after P&O Ferries suspended sailings and handed 800 seafarers immediate severance notices
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VINCE MILLS sizes up the problems facing Your Party north of the border as it grapples with a range of policies, including its approach to Scottish independence
MARK SERWOTKA issues a rallying call to those committed to building a new radical socialist party of the working class to commit to real democracy, not imaginary or performative gestures
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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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