Protest 29/4/2022: Cairnryan, Stranraer, Wigtownshire, DG9 8RF Scotland.
RMT members and other trades unionists will step up their campaign for justice against mass sackings at the ferry operator with a protest at Cairnryan port on Friday.
Demonstrators will be encouraging passengers not to use the ferries as part of the union's "Boycott P&O" campaign. Following the unlawful sacking of 800 staff in March, P&O has been embroiled in a series of safety violations on their ferries and has used agency labour, paying foreign workers less than £4 an hour in some cases. RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: "The protest at Cairnryan will display the full frustration and sense of injustice felt not only by sacked P&O workers but also that of the wider community.
"Until all P&O ships are impounded and brought under government control, protests and demonstrations outside of ports across the UK will continue."
Socialist Public Ownership the Answer
The reason big capitalist businesses like P&O treat workers so badly is because they are run, not to provide a ferry service but to produce profitis for their owners. Scottish TUSC fights for a different type of society; one in which transport and other sectors are planned to meet the needs of workers and communities, not the profits of the richest 1%. That's why we call for the ferries to be taken into public ownership, under democratic workers' control with decent pay and conditions for all. All sacked workers should immediately be reinstated.
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Scottish TUSC at the last Demo at Cairnryan
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