P&O Ferries Sackings Scandal: The Backstory.
Former P&O Ferries Seafarer John Lansdown aims to navigate you through a near 20 year journey that culminated in P&O Ferries committing one of the most brazen and grotesque acts of corporate vandalism this country has ever witnessed, when it sacked its entire seagoing workforce of nearly 800 seafarers, and replaced them with cheap, exploited foreign crews.
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P&O Ferries Sackings Scandal: The Backstory.
Former P&O Ferries Seafarer John Lansdown aims to navigate you through a near 20 year journey that culminated in P&O Ferries committing one of the most brazen and grotesque acts of corporate vandalism this country has ever witnessed, when it sacked its entire seagoing workforce of nearly 800 seafarers, and replaced them with cheap, exploited foreign crews.
Guests Dr Jonathan Lord, a senior lecturer in Human Resources from the University of Salford and Steve Todd, a former RMT National Maritime Secretary discuss the impact of ITF Agreements in the industry and how they’ve been used as an attempt to stop the rot and prevent a further race to the bottom. Plus a debate on why the maritime industry is in desperate need of a government body to enforce employment laws.
Dr Jonathan Lord, a senior lecturer from the University of Salford sits down with John to discuss the P&O Ferries mass sackings from a HR perspective and they explore why John felt he could foresee what was to come in the months leading up to the betrayal of 800 P&O Ferries seafarers.
The two old time Seafarers are back. They discuss the impact Covid 19 had on the industry and explore how well-intentioned colleagues may have unwittingly taken part in the planning for the mass sacking of March 2022, as well as Peter Hebblethwaite’s broken pledge to seafarers.
How the mass sacking of nearly 550 seafarers by Irish Ferries in 2005, coupled with Government failures, and negligence by trade Union officials, arguably led to the mass sacking of 800 P&O Ferries seafarers in March 2022.
Throughout this series I aim to navigate you through a near 20 year journey that culminated in P&O Ferries committing one of the most brazen and grotesque acts of corporate vandalism this country has ever witnessed, when it sacked its entire seagoing workforce of nearly 800 seafarers, and replaced them with cheap foreign crews.
P&O Ferries Sackings Scandal: The Backstory.
Former P&O Ferries Seafarer John Lansdown aims to navigate you through a near 20 year journey that culminated in P&O Ferries committing one of the most brazen and grotesque acts of corporate vandalism this country has ever witnessed, when it sacked its entire seagoing workforce of nearly 800 seafarers, and replaced them with cheap, exploited foreign crews.
