News / P&O's ferries are 'ships of shame', with new crews paid just $2.38 an hour

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P&O Ferries has partially resumed its Irish Sea sailings and there are reports it is preparing to resume cross-Channel services, employing non-UK crews earning as little as $2.38 an hour.

The RMT union today claimed P&O Ferries’ crews at Dover had been replaced by Indian seafarers on that rate of pay.

“The news that the seafarers now on ships in British ports are to be paid $2.38 an hour is a shocking exploitation of those seafarers and another gut-wrenching betrayal of those ...