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By *aulj69 OP Man
over a year ago

dunstable

Just heard and WTF, in a 24 sec zoom call 800 seafaring workers have been sacked with immediate effect? They are basically outsourcing these workers and replacing them with cheaper foreign workers? There is about to be a mutiny as many staff have refused to return the ships and good on them. Views please guys, I think it's disgraceful. Love you all. Paul X

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There are no words for this, totally disgusting

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The company I used to work for used p and 0 a good lot and I knew a lot of the lads and lasses from the boats going back and forward, thoughts go out to them. Mental how quick it happened

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By *ighty_tightyMan
over a year ago

Norfolk/Suffolk

It is disgraceful.

It isn't new though.

Social dumping in the maritime industry is rife.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What's disgraceful? Tjhe mass sacking or the stealing of ships? Both are possibly immoral acts though if the company wish to sack them then they have to have fair reason. If it is a massive redundancy then this is one of the issues of capitalism but if they wish to re-hire then they "have to" legally offer the jobs to those they laid off.

Crash the system!

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By *ighty_tightyMan
over a year ago

Norfolk/Suffolk

"What's disgraceful? Tjhe mass sacking or the stealing of ships? Both are possibly immoral acts though if the company wish to sack them then they have to have fair reason. If it is a massive redundancy then this is one of the issues of capitalism but if they wish to re-hire then they "have to" legally offer the jobs to those they laid off.

Crash the system!"

The positions will be made redundant. New positions will have different titles or will be hired from a third party. There's ways and means.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That's the third P&O/Townsend Torreson thing I've read today, how strange. I had been on the ferry that sank, and it's sister ship, the Spirit of/Herald of Free Enterprise. Irrelevant. But yeah, mass sackings like that and immediate replacement by cheaper workers sucks ass. But, where are they gonna find 800 people who are cheaper? Oh, France, in the EU? Curious... Won't say the B word....

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By *estless nativeMan
over a year ago

near Glasgow

P&O owned by UAE gov (met with bojo yesterday) huge investments from Russia, cant help but see the politics in this.

Land based staff in France are protected from this move.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"That's the third P&O/Townsend Torreson thing I've read today, how strange. I had been on the ferry that sank, and it's sister ship, the Spirit of/Herald of Free Enterprise. Irrelevant. But yeah, mass sackings like that and immediate replacement by cheaper workers sucks ass. But, where are they gonna find 800 people who are cheaper? Oh, France, in the EU? Curious... Won't say the B word...."

Heard on the radio they have buses loaded with said replacement workers and the Captain refusing to let them on.

Not sure on the truth level but it wouldn't surprise me

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

As fuel costs increase, these have to be offset by savings elsewhere; local labour is costly.

Most international shipping businesses, such as Maersk use labour from lower cost areas.

The ramifications of sanctions on Russia will be far-reaching; watch how much food costs and food shortages will bite over the next few years!

Food shortages in Lebanon and Egypt will destabilise those areas; the world's population is not capable if being fed locally and depends of international trade in fossil fuels, fertilisers and basic food commodities, much of which was grown in the Ukraine and fuelled by Russian gas and oil.

Narrow and dysfunctional political ambitions, such as Putin's, should be subordinate to a more integrated intelligent worldview of life on this fragile planet.

Democracy is a means of controlling autocratic mutters who do not value human lives, especially within their own states.

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