the last eastender
9:10 Fri Mar 18
Re: P&O ferries
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Welcome to the brexit as the Dutch customs officer said. Plenty more of this to come in the dubai of the north.
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Nurse Ratched
10:02 Thu Mar 17
Re: P&O ferries
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I couldn't remember, so just looked up the logo for Sealink. Instantly recognisable and made my stomach lurch. Took me a while to work out why. It's the same sensation I get looking down the sloping walkways to the platforms at Euston Station. It's the memory/anticipation of horrible seasickness making all those trips to visit family in Eire as a small child (Euston to Holyhead for the ferry to Dublin). The Irish Sea is a malicious, roiling monster.
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Stevethehammer
9:10 Thu Mar 17
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It's about time the fucking narrative changed in this country. Why is it a god given right for shareholders to always get a payout especially when the company ask for handouts and bailouts yet still have to line the pockets of the shareholder. Tory government I suppose.
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COOL HAND LUKE
8:26 Thu Mar 17
Re: P&O ferries
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Getting rid of existing staff and replacing them with new people for the same jobs is known as 'bumping' in employment parlance and is illegal.
It's likely they are all employed via Dubai hence different (unpleasant) rules will probably apply...
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WHU(Exeter)
8:06 Thu Mar 17
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What Violator said.
Plus Sealink had a brilliant logo.
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riosleftsock
7:56 Thu Mar 17
Re: P&O ferries
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From the BBC
"The firm claimed almost £15m in government grants in 2020, which included furlough payments for its employees.
P&O is owned by DP World, the multi-national ports and logistics company based in Dubai. It paid a £270m dividend to shareholders in 2020"
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riosleftsock
7:54 Thu Mar 17
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RBS
Hence why i started my post with "From social media, so not sure how true it is..."
I must admit I wondered whether there would be any noise at the western companies that just closed operations in Russia and pulled the plug leaving loads of out of work folk who have nothing to do with this either, but listening to the union bloke on the radio, it seems this was the latest in a long line of these shady practices.couldn't do it in France because of their 'ridiculous' labour laws.
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violator
7:43 Thu Mar 17
Re: P&O ferries
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Bring back Sealink
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northbankboy68
7:41 Thu Mar 17
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The agency staff have flown in from Larvia, Lithuania and Georgia. So much for taking back control!
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RBshorty
7:25 Thu Mar 17
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Rio. I would hold fire with tin foil hat at the moment. DP World own numerous ports around Europe and the globe.(Including Southampton and London Gateway) The last thing they will do is piss away billions worth of trade. To cover a lost of a couple of million. By getting warm and cozy with the Russians.
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Stevethehammer
7:15 Thu Mar 17
Re: WE ARE SAILING...WE ARE SAILLLLLING
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Seems completely wrong to me. Sacked straight away, no consultation period, nothing and replaced literally the same day.
P&O always were the shit ones for me, too expensive and could get exactly the same crossing with DFDS for half the price. Fuck P&O and hopefully their business plan now sinks.
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riosleftsock
7:08 Thu Mar 17
Re: WE ARE SAILING...WE ARE SAILLLLLING
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From SM so not sure how true, but it could be relevant
"Putin visited the Shikh Khalifa Bin Zated Al Nahyan in Dubai to do a deal and get support for his war, most of his oligarch friends are hiding their wealth in the Emirates, and P+O just happen to be owned by DP World, they bought P+O Ferries for £322million in Feb 2019. It had originally bought the business in 2006 before selling it on to its major shareholder Dubai World - a state holding company for the UAE state in 2009, its one of the ays to put the screws on the UK along with other measures we haven't seen yet"
Don't shoot the messenger.
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ray winstone
7:08 Thu Mar 17
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It's all about 'delivering a high wage, high skill economy', apparently.....
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threesixty
7:03 Thu Mar 17
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Apparently they got in a whole load of staff from Columbia!
Turning like the USA every day we are...
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PwoperNaughtyButNot
7:01 Thu Mar 17
Re: WE ARE SAILING...WE ARE SAILLLLLING
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They aren’t paid a lot so are cheap to settle out without consultation I guess.
I am assuming as they are at sea all the time back and forth the staff will now be cheaper immigrant staff from france?
Who knows
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Lee Trundle
6:56 Thu Mar 17
Re: WE ARE SAILING...WE ARE SAILLLLLING
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Will they still be able to watch the match tonight?!
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cup of tea
6:55 Thu Mar 17
WE ARE SAILING...WE ARE SAILLLLLING
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(nt)
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