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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
A surge in futures activity minutes before news of US–Iran talks has led to questions about insider trading and oversight gaps, writes CJ ATKINS
In his fortnightly Borderlands column, MARK SEDDON visits overgrown forts along Offa’s Dyke and reflects on wars past and present
With attacks on industry, healthcare and education intensifying, JAMSHID AHMADI warns of a deliberate drive to cripple Iran and calls for urgent global action
The Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) cautiously welcomes the ceasefire, but remains suspicious of US and Israeli intentions
JOHN McINALLY assesses what we’ve learned from the disastrous US war so far
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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