P&O Ferries

[Gingerbaker]

Such a shame about P&O ferries and the people who have lost their jobs.

There is talk of replacing the old staff with agency contractors from god knows where ( sounds like slave labour which is standard where the owners are from) They must be paid very little to make some sort of significant savings to mop up £200 million losses over the pandemic period. I understand this is probably a longer term strategy but it still makes it impossible for any European person to work for P&O!!

[Ellipsis]

Yes, a shame, I used to have shares in P&O back in the day and travel on their ferries regularly. This is a big fall from grace ...

[johnk]

Nasty way to do this. The standard of service will drop.

[murraymints]

not good the way it was executed... can see stand off on board some ships to demonstrate

[emmie]

P&O were losing 100 million Per Annum according to the news.
terrible way to dismiss people, it's not right at all.

[grumpy01]

Very underhanded,hope they go to the wall.

[theshedman]

Yet in 2020 they paid out over 270 million to shareholders and during the pandemic they got millions from the government.

[Hopkirk]

I'm surprised the senior management didn't resign, when the orders to do this came from Dubai.

[Bazile]

Is there anything we still own , in Britain?

[emmie]

not much by all accounts....

[barry1010]

Not even Thornton's chocolate, Baz

[William51]

We do not treat our workers here in this awful way. The unions and government should get involved and stop this practice.

[Zacs-Master]

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