P&O staff replaced by workers ‘earning just £1.80 an hour'

SACKED P&O ferry crews at Dover have been replaced by Indian seafarers paid the equivalent of £1.80 an hour, a union leader claimed.

- Graham Hiscott

Mick Lynch, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, hit out at the move as “shocking exploitation”.

The claim came as crowds, including axed staff, protested outside the London offices of P&O owner – Dubai-based logistics giant DP World – before marching on Parliament.

A fired P&O employee said he only found out he was sacked when a security guard woke him up and told him to “pack up and get off” his ship.

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