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Founder of @LarkinPR. Views my own
Mar 17, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
P&O Ferries furloughed 1400 of its staff during the pandemic, costing the taxpayer £10m.
They also asked us for a £150m bailout.
Its parent company then paid out £250m to shareholders.
Now pandemic's over, they're sacking the British staff we supported.
rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-calls… P&O Ferries announced plans to sack 1,100 staff in May 2020 after owners DP World refuse to inject money to keep jobs.
They begged government to chip in £150m to a £250m plan to keep operations and staff levels.
BUT STILL handed out a dividend of £270M! seatrade-maritime.com/ship-operation…