Benjamin_Nevis Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 P&O fire out a video message telling 800 employees they're being shit-canned immediately (whilst working on board ferries). Staff refused to leave with foreign workers intended to replace them stuck out on the docks. Terrific stuff from P&O there. P&O f**k staff over 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 This topic is being discussed on 4 different threads. Maybe one of Div's kapos could bring them together ? Ta. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 3 minutes ago, Day of the Lords said: P&O fire out a video message telling 800 employees they're being shit-canned immediately (whilst working on board ferries). Staff refused to leave with foreign workers intended to replace them stuck out on the docks. Terrific stuff from P&O there. P&O f**k staff over Should have faxed it through like Phil Collins dumping his missus IMO 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 f**k P&O. Unsure if I was ever likely to use them. Never will now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 FREE PALESTINE!!! 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dundee Hibernian Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Parent company is DP (Dubai Ports) World. Was that cunt Johnson not just in the UAE yesterday? Didn't they tell him? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 A level of cuntiness that is difficult to surpass, although I'm sure someone will eventually. Not even "fire and rehire", just fired and immediately replaced with cheap agency labour. Did get a good chuckle at the Captain lifting the drawbridge on one of the ships so the heavies can't get onboard to chuck them all off. Good luck getting your boat back, you fuckers. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Don't think this will be the last time something like this happens, the erosion of employee rights under the new free Britain where those EU dictators can't control our lives is only just beginning. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofarl Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 I hope they scuttle every single shit vessel they own. What a disgusting bunch of c***s. Imagine outarseholing Ryanair in the travel industry in one fell swoop. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 8 minutes ago, Lofarl said: I hope they scuttle every single shit vessel they own. What a disgusting bunch of c***s. Imagine outarseholing Ryanair in the travel industry in one fell swoop. I am fairly ignorant of employment / industrial relations legislation but had assumed that this type of stuff was completely illegal. Can someone enlighten me ? Maybe one for WRK ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleMoo Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 I am fairly ignorant of employment / industrial relations legislation but had assumed that this type of stuff was completely illegal. Can someone enlighten me ? Maybe one for WRK ?I thought the same. Thought there was six month period whereby the company couldn't recruit for a post that they had made redundent 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeartsOfficialMoaner Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Sacking the Britnats and giving jobs to muslims. 57 minutes ago, Dundee Hibernian said: Parent company is DP (Dubai Ports) World. Was that cunt Johnson not just in the UAE yesterday? Didn't they tell him? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 8 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said: I am fairly ignorant of employment / industrial relations legislation but had assumed that this type of stuff was completely illegal. Due to EU Red Tape probably. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williemillersmoustache Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 1 minute ago, MuckleMoo said: 8 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said: I am fairly ignorant of employment / industrial relations legislation but had assumed that this type of stuff was completely illegal. Can someone enlighten me ? Maybe one for WRK ? I thought the same. Thought there was six month period whereby the company couldn't recruit for a post that they had made redundent 33 minutes ago, Michael W said: Did get a good chuckle at the Captain lifting the drawbridge on one of the ships so the heavies can't get onboard to chuck them all off. Good luck getting your boat back, you fuckers. I haven't seen the footage but believe the correct nautical term is "gangplank" 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofarl Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Actually the captain should up the ante. No redundancy, a payrise, 51% employee ownership or I ram this vessel into the next passing Russian warship 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williemillersmoustache Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Internet alive with hosrsehit about how this is because we have left the EU/haven't left the EU enough. Undoubtedly there will have been an economic impact from loss of trade, direct EU to Ireland routes but legally and workers right wise? Nah. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) Govt. (presumably that sockpuppet Shapps) to make statement at 5pm. Latest from Guardian :- The leading UK ferry operator, P&O Ferries, has sacked 800 British crew across its entire fleet after stopping all its sailings on Thursday. Unions called on government to halt what it called a “scandalous betrayal”, with P&O planning to use cheap agency staff to operate its ships. The operator, owned by the Dubai-based DP World, earlier told crew to return to port and await a “major announcement” in a sudden move likely to cause serious disruption to travel for passengers and freight. Security staff were preparing to remove crew from ships in Dover and Larne, Belfast, after unions instructed crew not to leave vessels. Coaches carrying replacement agency staff – brought in from Colombia, according to reports in the French press – were reported to be standing by at Dover and Hull. The RMT said that guards with handcuffs were seeking to board ships to remove crew so they could be replaced with cheaper labour. The union’s general secretary, Mick Lynch, said it was seeking urgent legal action over “one of the most shameful acts in the history of British industrial relations”. He added: “We have instructed our members to remain on board and are demanding our members across P&O’s UK operations are protected, and that the secretary of state intervenes to save UK seafarers from the dole queue.” Staff were told by video message that P&O “vessels will be primarily crewed by a third party crew provider … Your final day of employment is today.” Ferry services are now understood to be unlikely to resume for several days. RMT members outside the Port of Dover as P&O Ferries suspended sailings and handed 800 seafarers immediate severance notices. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA DP World, one of largest port operators globally, is owned by Dubai’s sovereign wealth fund, and chaired by Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, who also heads Dubai’s customs authority. The group owns London Gateway port – the centrepiece of the first of the controversial freeports championed by the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, and established by the government last year. A spokesperson for P&O Ferries said it had to take a “very difficult but necessary decision” to “secure the future viability of our business, which employs an additional 2,200 people, and supports billions in trade in and out of the UK”. They added: “However, in its current state, P&O Ferries is not a viable business. We have made a £100m loss year-on-year, which has been covered by our parent DP World. This is not sustainable. Our survival is dependent on making swift and significant changes now.” P&O had earlier told staff – in a note posted on social media by Hull’s Labour MP, Karl Turner – that it would “be making a major announcement today”, adding: “To facilitate this announcement all our vessels have been asked to discharge their passengers and cargo and stand by for further instructions. This means we’re expecting all our ports to experience serious disruption today.” Turner said the sackings were “utterly deplorable predatory practice taking full advantage of the gap in the legislation”. Labour’s shadow transport secretary, Louise Haigh, called on the government to act, saying: “Unscrupulous employers cannot be given free rein to sack their workforce in secure jobs and replace with agency staff. The Conservative government must not give the green light to this appalling practice, and must act to secure the livelihoods of these workers.” The transport select committee chair, the Conservative Huw Merriman, joined calls for government action, saying: “The government must do everything it can to ensure that this appalling employment transaction cannot be completed.” P&O is the leading ferry operator on the Dover-Calais crossing, the main sea link from Britain and Europe, and also sails from Hull to Rotterdam, Liverpool to Dublin and Cairnryan in Scotland to Larne. Unions demanded assurances and government intervention to protect British jobs. The maritime union Nautilus International said the news was “a betrayal of British workers”. Its general secretary, Mark Dickinson, said: “It is nothing short of scandalous, given that this Dubai-owned company received British taxpayer’s money during the pandemic. “There was no consultation and no notice given by P&O. Be assured, the full resources of Nautilus International stand ready to act in defence of our members. We have instructed our members to stay onboard until further notice. The head of the European seafarers’ union ETF, Livia Spera, said it was “astonishing that this can happen in major developed country like the UK”. P&O Ferries has nearly 4,000 employees, and said in May 2020 that it may have to make 1,100 redundant because of the coronavirus outbreak. It was given £33m in emergency funding by the government to ensure freight kept sailing. A P&O representative earlier told the Independent that it was not facing liquidation. The transport secretary, Grant Shapps, asked by Labour in the Commons, said he was “concerned” by the news. He told MPs he was working with the Kent Resilience Forum to manage disruption from the cross-Channel closure, adding: “We will be taking steps later today, including ensuring officials are having urgent discussion with P&O about the situation, particularly concerning their workers.” P&O apologised to customers on Twitter, saying: “Regretfully, P&O Ferries services are unable to run for the next few hours. Our port teams will guide you and travel will be arranged via an alternative operator.” Cross-Channel ferry passengers and truck drivers were expected to be diverted to DFDS or Eurotunnel services. Passengers on Irish Sea crossings have been sent to Stena Line. Some customers were left stranded this morning. A driver in Calais due to return to the UK told the PA news agency he had been waiting for a ferry since 6am, adding: “More than anything I’m frustrated at the fact nobody from P&O was there to help and advise. I’ve never had such shoddy service from anybody.” DP World bought P&O Ferries for a second time in 2019, for £322m, after selling it earlier in the decade. The business is believed to have been making escalating losses, with the rising cost of diesel adding to disruption from Covid and post-Brexit paperwork in cross-Channel traffic. DP World said it had never taken a dividend from P&O Ferries." Edited March 17, 2022 by Florentine_Pogen 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 16 minutes ago, williemillersmoustache said: I haven't seen the footage but believe the correct nautical term is "gangplank" I called the vessel a boat as well - it's probably a ship. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) Getting sacked by video is probably the only thing that Back To The Future 2 got right. Edited March 17, 2022 by Detournement 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumobir Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) 34 minutes ago, williemillersmoustache said: I haven't seen the footage but believe the correct nautical term is "gangplank" It’s actually “gangway” or “accommodation ladder” depending on the system used. I am a seafarer (or was, I’m a Pilot now) and have a few mates who work for P&O, a total disbelief this has happened to them. A guy I know is onboard in Cairnryan, not only did security turn up, they were rigged out in balaclavas, a fine way to treat your staff, some who will have been working there for decades. To put this in to perspective, P&O paid out £270m in dividends in 2020. Additionally, P&O have stated there will be disruption to service for a few days. Whenever I’ve joined a vessel for the first time, I usually do a “parallel sailing” with the guy I’m relieving so that I’m comfortable with the ship’s systems and more importantly, can respond to emergency situations effectively which happen far more often than you’d want to believe. In fact the Pride of Hull recently had a fire onboard and the crew were praised for saving the vessel. I’d hope the MCA would be all over this as every ship should receive a full Port State Control Inspection before being given permission to sail. Edited March 17, 2022 by stumobir 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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