'Sacked by email' P&O seafarers protest sudden UK redundancies – video report
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Seafarers blocked a road in Dover in protest after leading UK ferry operator, P&O Ferries, sacked 800 British crew across its entire fleet after stopping all its sailings on Thursday.Security staff were preparing to remove crew from ships in Dover and Larne, Belfast, after unions instructed crew not to leave vessels. Coaches carrying replacement agency staff – brought in from Colombia, according to reports in the French press – were reported to be standing by at Dover and Hull.Staff were told by video message that P&O 'vessels will be primarily crewed by a third party crew provider … Your final day of employment is today'. The RMT said guards with handcuffs were seeking to board ships to remove crew so they could be replaced with cheaper labourP&O Ferries sacks all 800 crew members across entire fleet Continue reading...