P&O Ferries sacks all 800 crew members across entire fleet
by Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#5X6YQ)
Unions brand move scandalous' with jobs axed without notice and agency workers lined up to staff vessels
The leading UK ferry operator P&O Ferries has sacked its crew across its entire fleet after stopping all its sailings on Thursday.
Unions called it a scandalous betrayal", and said about 800 jobs at all grades had been axed with no notice, with P&O planning to use cheap agency staff to operate its ships.
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