News / ITF union in Dubai to discuss P&O sackings as pressure on DP World builds

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Union officials from the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) have arrived in Dubai for talks with Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, CEO of DP World, owner of P&O Ferries.

ITF general secretary Stephen Cotton and dockers section secretary Enrico Tortolano will meet DP World officials tomorrow to discuss the sacking of 800 UK P&O Ferries seafarers on 17 March.

The union officials will deliver a letter for the sultan containing a petition signed by more than 10,000 people calling on DP World to ...