News / RMT calls for government control of P&O Ferries and crews to be reinstated

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UK transport union RMT has called on the government to take control of P&O Ferries and reinstate 800 sacked crew members, as their replacements refuse to take a pay cut and sign new inferior contracts.

The RMT said it would maintain the pressure on Dubai-owned P&O Ferries after it said the company was forced into an embarrassing U-turn when agency staff refused to accept low rates of pay.

However, the union believes: “The only way out of this latest crisis at the ...