A 12 bore over & under cunting for the “Oh so striking union,” that calls itself the R.M.T. P&O gets itself a mention here too, after just one of it’s ‘sacked’ eight hundred or so workers, a chef by the name of John Langsdown actually had the balls to stick two fingers up to P&O, and reject his impending redundancy package.
Having joined at the tender age of sixteen, some twenty four years later, was abruptly given the bad news, along with all the others.
There was no time given here either to collect their personal belongings from their cabins, as they were marched off by a group of appointed uniformed thugs. He took it to an industrial tribunal for unfair dismissal, & won!
Not sure if he had any union representation here, but having paid his dues (if he was in the union) then he should have. Shame though that the R.M.T. didn’t get involved in the first instance. But it seems, as has always been the case, they have only ever been interested in trains. (I bet that cunt Mick Lynch has a bespoke set in his loft) So this chap got paid out an undisclosed amount, for which he was forced to sign a N.D.A. a modern hero here. I hope he has found his feet, he certainly deserves to.
I was there myself a few years back, & a member of the same union. That dinosaur Jimmy Knapp was in charge, so I can remember first hand the impression they made when P&O came out with statements like “We don’t recognise unions.”
But it’s a step too far when they don’t recognise the law, like when they told a family friend that they didn’t recognise T.U.P.E. when he was transferred over to P&O, from the Dover Harbour Board.
P&O might now at last face criminal proceedings as a result of what happened to the eight hundred or so. It’s not the first time these corporate cunts have got themselves into deep water. Back in the nineties they pulled their ferries out of the Dover to Boulogne route, at very short notice.
It pissed the French off enough, they took it to court. That got the then P&O M.D. a certain Graeme Dunlop, a suspended prison sentence (the naughty boy); that was a while before Dubai Ports World forked Out some £3.9 billion so that they could say it was theirs.
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Nominated by: Lord Scunthorpe