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Maritime union RMT says more must be done to protect seafarers and prevent another corporate scandal, four years after P&O Ferries’s sacking of 800 workers and their replacement by agency labour on the Dover/Calais route.
The union says that while the Labour government has taken positive to improve pay protections for ferry crews, major loopholes remain and stronger legal and enforcement powers are needed to stop rogue operators exploiting workers.
RMT general ...
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The RMT seafarer’s union is refusing to sit on the National Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Committee (NMOHSC) because it believes that there is an attempt to bring back former chair, P&O Ferries head of fleet safety, Grant Laversuch.
In an open letter, RMT said that the NMOHSC had been chaired ...
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