我們在多佛的所有人，尤其是市議會的所有人都對 P 的裁員感到震驚和震驚&O Ferries this past week. The impact on both the company’s employees and our whole community cannot be overstated.
P公司總部&O 及其跨海峽渡輪船隊是該鎮的日常景點和許多當地工作和, 所以, 我們港口的渡輪服務直接和間接地為家庭提供了支持.
The way in which the news was broken to the employees has been unfair and inhuman – every person deserves to be treated with dignity and respect in such a difficult situation. We empathise with and pledge our support to all those households which now face an uncertain and difficult future.
The dreadful lack of respect for British workers shown by the owners and management of P&O Ferries is compounded by their proposed exploitation of offshore replacement crew, all of whom will receive lower wages and fewer benefits and protections purely because of their ethnicity or place of origin. This is unacceptable exploitation.
We expect the government to do everything in its power to provide redress to the dismissed employees, to punish P&O for its lack of humanity and regard for the spirit of British legislation and to prevent this sort of employment abuse from happening again.
In the meantime, we pledge not to use P&O Ferries to show our support for the dismissed employees until that company reverts to proper employment practices.