[Travel] P and O

[Thunder Bolt]

Interestingly, the Dutch and French dockers have told a union calling for the reinstatement of 800 sacked seafarers that they won’t handle ferries manned by “scab” crews.

Bear in mind the Dutch and French seafarers didn't lose their jobs.

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/new...sue-scab-warning-over-po-agency-crews-3619078

 

[vegster]

Johnson's reply to criticism of this on PMQT just now was that they are in favour of commerce and jobs, wheras labour is against this.

But the Tory Brexit government have made it more expensive and time consuming to trade with our closest trading partners? The twists, turns, lies and denials from this shower are incredible.....even Sunak has traded his soul in for the hope of the PM job....." The work starts now. " .. obviously forgetting the last 12 years !

 

[Pevenseagull]

The new staff will be on the international maritime minimum wage.

£5.56 per hour.


Edit: £5.15 to £6 per hour.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Jesus wept.

Some utter CJTC representative of P&O is on BBC news at the moment 'justifying' their actions.

Horrendous.

 

[Randy McNob]

The new staff will be on the international maritime minimum wage.

£5.56 per hour.


Edit: £5.15 to £6 per hour.

Tory/Brexit Britain

 

[Pevenseagull]

Tory/Brexit Britain

When asked why it was British workers that got sacked (without the legal process) and not European workers he said he didn't look into that ..

 

[nicko31]

Tory/Brexit Britain

Demonise foreigners

Persuade public to vote against their interests

Deregulate and lower standards

All going to plan

 

[Pevenseagull]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-60862883

 

[Pevenseagull]

Demonise foreigners

Persuade public to vote against their interests

Deregulate and lower standards

All going to plan

So much winning

 

[clapham_gull]

Now admitting to breaking the law.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60862933

 

[Baker lite]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60862933

 

[vegster]

Apparently Huw Merriman MP, Con. told the boss of P&O that " he should resign for knowingly breaking the law as regards the sackings of British seamen."

Was it not the Conservative government that said they were willing to break international law in Northern Ireland in a " Limited and specific way " ?

Once you start ignoring laws and rules where does it end?

 

[Jolly Red Giant]

what can the TUC do; what could the Irish unions have done that they didnt do?

Call a 24 hour general strike - shut the country down and let the Tories and P&O know there would be more to come - then get the European Trade Union Confederation to black and boycott any and all movement by P&O and anything moving on or off their ships (French and Belgian dock workers have already declared they will black P&O).

 

[Jolly Red Giant]

Thanks to Thatcher 'secondary action' is not legal in the UK. The only people who can strike are the sacked workers.

F*ck Thatcher's anti-union laws - it is about time they were broken

The British people voted for this because they didn't like being dictated to by unions.

Bullsh*t - the only reason Thatcher every got elected was because of the anti-working class policies of the Wilson/Callaghan government - and the subsequent incompetence of first Michael Foot's LP (sabotaged by the Gang of Four) and particularly the proto-tory Lord Kinnock.

I doubt the British people will concern itself much with the sacked workers. We have moved on from all that sort of thing. We are free, now.

Yes 'free' to be abused by the likes of P&O and tossed onto the scrap heap at a whim so they can increase their profits - Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem really needs to add to his $6billion to cement his place among the oligarchs of the UAE

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Johnson has just claimed on PMQT that had we been in the EU we would have had no power to stop the P&O sackings.

What chutzpa.

It's a lie, isn't it.

Did his lips move?

 

[NooBHA]

F*ck Thatcher's anti-union laws - it is about time they were broken


Bullsh*t - the only reason Thatcher every got elected was because of the anti-working class policies of the Wilson/Callaghan government - and the subsequent incompetence of first Michael Foot's LP (sabotaged by the Gang of Four) and particularly the proto-tory Lord Kinnock.


Yes 'free' to be abused by the likes of P&O and tossed onto the scrap heap at a whim so they can increase their profits - Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem really needs to add to his $6billion to cement his place among the oligarchs of the UAE

I normally agree with most of your post JRG - But I am not having Michael Foot ''trashed'' - He was one of the most '' progressive '' human beings this country has ever seen - I was very young when he was Leader of the Labour Party but I met him later on in life after he had left Politics at a fund raising event and his views on so many social justice and equal rights issues were way ahead of their time.

He told me a story about someone came to his door one time campaigning on behalf of Local Residents in Hampstead to get a Burger Van closed down which apparently was somewhere close to Jack Straws Castle Pub - I can't verify his story because he was telling his own story but he said to me that the local Residents asked him to sign a Petition to close the Burger Van Down because it was attracting Gay Men on to Hampstead Heath. He claimed he told them to sling their hook because and I quote - He said he said to them '' those Boys will be cold when they come off the Heath and would need a good warm cup of tea ''

I pissed myself laughing when he told me the story because I was looking at this old bloke who must have been about 80 at the time and I just couldn't imagine him as some sort of ''Gay Activist''

 

[Weststander]

Now admitting to breaking the law.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60862933

…. and he would’ve 100% known that at the time, “ends justify the means”. Today, intimating that it was an accidental oversight.

Then saying it’s alright because of the discretionary redundancy payouts (way in excess of the statutory maximum).

But that does not compensate the pecuniary loss in foregoing the remainder of a working life’s remuneration at P&O.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Caught some of this today and some of the questions were farcical. As i would like to know why and what went on in the Middle East in November last year when Grant Shapps was it seems told by P and O huge major changes were on the way. Any decent QC would have ripped Hebblethwaite to shreads.

 

[Jolly Red Giant]

I normally agree with most of your post JRG - But I am not having Michael Foot ''trashed'' - He was one of the most '' progressive '' human beings this country has ever seen - I was very young when he was Leader of the Labour Party but I met him later on in life after he had left Politics at a fund raising event and his views on so many social justice and equal rights issues were way ahead of their time.

He told me a story about someone came to his door one time campaigning on behalf of Local Residents in Hampstead to get a Burger Van closed down which apparently was somewhere close to Jack Straws Castle Pub - I can't verify his story because he was telling his own story but he said to me that the local Residents asked him to sign a Petition to close the Burger Van Down because it was attracting Gay Men on to Hampstead Heath. He claimed he told them to sling their hook because and I quote - He said he said to them '' those Boys will be cold when they come off the Heath and would need a good warm cup of tea ''

I pissed myself laughing when he told me the story because I was looking at this old bloke who must have been about 80 at the time and I just couldn't imagine him as some sort of ''Gay Activist''

You misunderstand the point I was making NooBHA - I have also met Foot and he was, as you point out, a decent guy. The problem was that he did exactly what Corbyn tried to do - accommodate the (what would now be called Blairites) 'Gang of Four' and their wider circle - and they did just what the Blairites did to Corbyn - stabbed him in the back, irrespective of the consequences to the Labour Party and to the working class in Britain.

 

[Easy 10]

Well I quite enjoyed the public monstering that grasping slimeball Hebblethwaite got today. "Are you in this mess because you don't know what you're doing, or are you just a shameless criminal ?"

Won't mean much in the great scheme of things unless he is forced to resign, but it was good to see a piece of filth like him squirm on a hook for a while. No doubt he'll still get his grubby mits on his bonuses, and hs index-linked pension. But everyone now knows what an utter scumbag he is.