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[Travel] P and O
- Thread starter worthingseagull123
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- Jul 10, 2003
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To be fair, they had funding problems and made significant redundancies a year ago which they blamed on Brexit and Covid. With them being partly Russian owned, maybe the Russian sanctions and subsequent economy crash has just proved to be the straw on the proverbial Camel 
Baker lite
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Dear Lord above, you people don’t give up do you? It’s nearly six years since the British people voted to leave the EU. Move on with your life FFS.
Stop being a snowflake - was just speculating based on what had been suggested on social media- alongside another theory. Don't worry about it petal
AND as you can see - they already re-registered their boats in 2019 from UK to Cyprus. Maybe for a laugh though ?
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
How long did people campaign to leave the EU, 45 years wasn't it, and you're getting tetchy at 6!!
- Jul 10, 2003
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This thread is about the current Problems being experienced by P&O. If you don't have anything to add to the discussion please take your trolling somewhere else
And please stop reacting to the troll.
How many people refuse to fly BA after fire and rehire?
- Jul 10, 2003
- 28,507
Another 800 jobs gone and further disruption for the next 'few days'
https://news.sky.com/story/p-o-ferries-suspends-all-sailings-ahead-of-major-announcement-12568327
That's the workforce almost halved. 1900 gone in the last year and only 2,200 left.
https://news.sky.com/story/p-o-ferries-suspends-all-sailings-ahead-of-major-announcement-12568327
That's the workforce almost halved. 1900 gone in the last year and only 2,200 left.
- Jul 10, 2003
- 28,507
Agree with that. People and haulage that has to cross the channel won't have long memories.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
How long did people campaign to leave the EU, 45 years wasn't it, and you're getting tetchy at 6!!
It's like some people don't like the consequences. It's turning quite ugly.
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I remember P&O running services at Newhaven for a short while. In that time they completely ran the service down and then cleared off. At least DFDS / Transmanche has stuck around.
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But theyre top of the league, has dick tight taken over?
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
The government defeated the bill to outlaw it, in October 2021. Now anyone can be fired and rehired on worse pay and conditions at any time.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/oct/22/anger-as-ministers-block-fire-and-rehire-bill-in-commons
P&O aren't even rehiring. They've brought in their own replacements.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...stops-service-is-said-to-cut-hundreds-of-jobs
Seems Brexit played a part in this. And the Tory party stripped away their rights only a short while ago. The will of the people!
Seems Brexit played a part in this. And the Tory party stripped away their rights only a short while ago. The will of the people!
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worthingseagull123
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This is a PR disaster for P and O.
The point is people dont care, if P&O are the cheapest people will use them
Uter
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If so then the RMT has some explaining to do to its members:
7 April 2016
RMT Press Office:
TRANSPORT UNION RMT today set out six key reasons why it will be advising members to vote to the leave the EU in the forthcoming referendum:
1. Leave the EU to end attacks on rail workers
New EU rail policies are set to further entrench rail privatisation and fragmentation. That will also mean more attacks or jobs and conditions and EU laws will make it impossible to bring all of rail back into public ownership.
2. Leave the EU to end attacks on seafarers and the offshore workers
The EU has promoted undercutting and social dumping leading to the decimation of UK seafarers. The same is now happening in the offshore sector. EU directives also require the tendering our public ferry services.
3. Leave the EU to end attacks on workers’ rights
It’s a myth that the EU is in favour of workers. In fact the EU is developing a new policy framework to attack trade union rights, collective bargaining, job protections and wages. This is already being enforced in countries which have received EU “bailouts”.
4. Leave the EU to end Austerity
If you join a union you expect members of the union to protect each other in times of trouble. The European Union has done the opposite. It has used the economic crisis to impose austerity and privatization on member states. Instead of protecting jobs and investment EU austerity is driving UK austerity.
5. Leave the EU to stop the attack on our NHS
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade agreement being negotiated between the EU and the United States will promote big business at the expense government protections and organisations including our NHS! Environmental regulations, employment rights, food safety, privacy laws and many other safeguards will also be secondary to the right of corporations to make even bigger profits.
6. Leave the EU to support democracy
The vast majority of the laws that affects our lives are now made in the EU and not the UK. We have no say over those Laws. As the late Tony Benn said in 1991…
“We are discussing whether the British people are to be allowed to elect those who make the laws under which they are governed. The argument is nothing to do with whether we should get more maternity leave from Madame Papandreou [a European Commissioner].”
RMT will be promoting the six key points direct to members across all sectors of the transport industry through the union’s RMT NEWS, through branches and reps and through the union’s social media platforms.
RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said:
“RMT is proud to stand up for the tradition of progressive and socialist opposition to the European Union, an organisation wedded to privatisation, austerity and attacking democracy.
“It would be frankly ludicrous for a union like ours to support staying in a bosses club that seeks to ban the public ownership of our railways, attacks the shipping and offshore sectors and embraces the privatisation of the NHS and other essential services that our members depend on.
“RMT has set out the six core reasons for our members to vote to leave and we will be campaigning hard on this platform.”
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
That's why we use the Channel Tunnel. It's quicker and cheaper.