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17-03-2022, 10:31 PM
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P&O Ferries sacks 800 staff as part of 'necessary' cuts and replaces them with agency workers
https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2022-03-17/p-and-o-ferries-suspends-all-sailings-ahead-of-major-announcement
P&O Ferries: 'We've been abandoned by the company', say sacked staff
Seafaring staff at P&O Ferries were told by video message that 800 of them were being sacked immediately as their ships returned to port. The decision has sparked angry protests from staff on ship and shore.
James, a steward on board the Spirit of France ferry at Dover, was on a day off when he heard the redundancy announcement.
He was texted half an hour before the three-minute video from P&O management.
"It feels like we have been abandoned by the company, only a few days ago they were ordering new uniforms and giving us all a pay rise and now, completely out the blue, they have sacked us," he said.
Mark Canet-Baldwin from Hull says he was hired a week ago to work as onboard services manager on a new ship sailing in British waters, but the agency couldn't tell him anything about the ship.
He was put up in a hotel in Glasgow and then driven at 05:30 GMT to an undisclosed location, which turned out to be the P&O dock at Cairnryan.
Their bus stopped to pick up a security detail of a dozen guards, "all in black, big handcuffs on the back of them", Mark says.
When they arrived, some agency staff knew the P&O workers as former colleagues and got in touch.
"People on board were just devastated," Mark says. "It was just horrible, we were appalled, there was just a general feeling of uneasiness on the bus and we felt we were like traitors to the cause or something."
One sacked P&O staff member had just taken out a mortgage, he says, and they had all been expecting to arrive home for two weeks of leave, not redundancy.
"I've got kids and I started thinking about them. In this day and age you've got to have morals, you've got to have ethics," Mark says.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60783784
No prior notice or consultation to @RMTunion
(Ratings) or
(Officers).
Replacement crews have been transported to all affected locations with largely foreign crews recruited by @ClydeMarine
and other crewing agencies.
Under the Trade Union & Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (TULRCA). The Secretary of State should have received notification of these redundancies from P&O Ferries. We have written to Ministers to confirm that they did not receive this notification.
DP_World
, posted a profit of $1.3 billion last year, up 19% on the previous year and paid a dividend of $275 million to its owner, the state owned Dubai World company.
Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Group Chairman & CEO of DP World
https://i.postimg.cc/BQWnmvjt/Sultan-Ahmed-Bin-Sulayem-ssulayem-Twitter.png
https://twitter.com/ssulayem?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7C twgr%5Eauthor
British International Investment, (formerly CDC Group plc, Commonwealth Development Corporation, and Colonial Development Corporation)[2] will in 2022 be the development finance institution of the UK government. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is responsible for the organisation, and is the sole shareholder. It has an investment portfolio valued around US$5.3 billion (year end 2017)[5] and since 2011 is focused on the emerging markets of South Asia and Africa.[1]
In November 2021, the FCDO announced that it would rebrand the CDC as British International Investment (BII) in 2022 as part of a strategy to deepen economic, security and development ties globally, increasing its financing to 9 billion pounds by 2025. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in the announcement the change was to "grow economies across Asia, Africa and the Caribbean while drawing them closer towards free-market democracies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_International_Investment
We’re partnering with DP World to chart a stronger course for African trade around the world
DP World, a world leader in global supply chain solutions, and CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, are entering into a long-term partnership to accelerate Africa’s long-term trade potential and transform the prospects of millions of people.
https://www.cdcgroup.com/en/news-insight/news/were-partnering-with-dp-world-to-chart-a-stronger-course-for-african-trade-around-the-world/
..
same old....
Power seems to be so far up
The man on the street ain't got a clue
The high top cats running your life
Think the problem is me and you...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEB2u0inD1o
J.J. Cale - The Problem
;D
P&O Ferries sacks 800 staff as part of 'necessary' cuts and replaces them with agency workers
https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2022-03-17/p-and-o-ferries-suspends-all-sailings-ahead-of-major-announcement
P&O Ferries: 'We've been abandoned by the company', say sacked staff
Seafaring staff at P&O Ferries were told by video message that 800 of them were being sacked immediately as their ships returned to port. The decision has sparked angry protests from staff on ship and shore.
James, a steward on board the Spirit of France ferry at Dover, was on a day off when he heard the redundancy announcement.
He was texted half an hour before the three-minute video from P&O management.
"It feels like we have been abandoned by the company, only a few days ago they were ordering new uniforms and giving us all a pay rise and now, completely out the blue, they have sacked us," he said.
Mark Canet-Baldwin from Hull says he was hired a week ago to work as onboard services manager on a new ship sailing in British waters, but the agency couldn't tell him anything about the ship.
He was put up in a hotel in Glasgow and then driven at 05:30 GMT to an undisclosed location, which turned out to be the P&O dock at Cairnryan.
Their bus stopped to pick up a security detail of a dozen guards, "all in black, big handcuffs on the back of them", Mark says.
When they arrived, some agency staff knew the P&O workers as former colleagues and got in touch.
"People on board were just devastated," Mark says. "It was just horrible, we were appalled, there was just a general feeling of uneasiness on the bus and we felt we were like traitors to the cause or something."
One sacked P&O staff member had just taken out a mortgage, he says, and they had all been expecting to arrive home for two weeks of leave, not redundancy.
"I've got kids and I started thinking about them. In this day and age you've got to have morals, you've got to have ethics," Mark says.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60783784
No prior notice or consultation to @RMTunion
(Ratings) or
(Officers).
Replacement crews have been transported to all affected locations with largely foreign crews recruited by @ClydeMarine
and other crewing agencies.
Under the Trade Union & Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (TULRCA). The Secretary of State should have received notification of these redundancies from P&O Ferries. We have written to Ministers to confirm that they did not receive this notification.
DP_World
, posted a profit of $1.3 billion last year, up 19% on the previous year and paid a dividend of $275 million to its owner, the state owned Dubai World company.
Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Group Chairman & CEO of DP World
https://i.postimg.cc/BQWnmvjt/Sultan-Ahmed-Bin-Sulayem-ssulayem-Twitter.png
https://twitter.com/ssulayem?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7C twgr%5Eauthor
British International Investment, (formerly CDC Group plc, Commonwealth Development Corporation, and Colonial Development Corporation)[2] will in 2022 be the development finance institution of the UK government. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is responsible for the organisation, and is the sole shareholder. It has an investment portfolio valued around US$5.3 billion (year end 2017)[5] and since 2011 is focused on the emerging markets of South Asia and Africa.[1]
In November 2021, the FCDO announced that it would rebrand the CDC as British International Investment (BII) in 2022 as part of a strategy to deepen economic, security and development ties globally, increasing its financing to 9 billion pounds by 2025. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in the announcement the change was to "grow economies across Asia, Africa and the Caribbean while drawing them closer towards free-market democracies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_International_Investment
We’re partnering with DP World to chart a stronger course for African trade around the world
DP World, a world leader in global supply chain solutions, and CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, are entering into a long-term partnership to accelerate Africa’s long-term trade potential and transform the prospects of millions of people.
https://www.cdcgroup.com/en/news-insight/news/were-partnering-with-dp-world-to-chart-a-stronger-course-for-african-trade-around-the-world/
..
same old....
Power seems to be so far up
The man on the street ain't got a clue
The high top cats running your life
Think the problem is me and you...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEB2u0inD1o
J.J. Cale - The Problem
;D