Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#1
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#2
The cuts are absolutely savage, more devastation in peoples lives through no fault of their own.
Audere est facere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
Apparently no wage cuts on the French side.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#4
It is always the working class that get hit the MPS again have looked after themself with a 10% rise and ex spending money on top. And it is all partys that get it they do not turn round and say no to it.Never have they had a cut in funding it is not fair on any of us even as a O.A.P. my funds coming in are the same as 4years ago and I am one of millions that worked up to and pass the age of 65.never out of work .
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#5
The GMB are demanding that the top brass at P & O take a similar chat to show fairness but management argue that their remuneration is in line with the other ferry operators on the channel.
I don't think there will be a strike though.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#6
don't speak to soon howard,
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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#8
Reality Street
Wages have gone down in most private sector working class jobs.
The labour market is overflowing with cheap labour,,,and the bosses love it.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#9
kieth,nothing to do with cheap labour,just outsoused dhb workers.
new about this last year,the ex dhb workers are not happy about it.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#10
What is the connection with DHB workers Brian? thought the comparison was with other ferry company workers?
Audere est facere.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#11
the mooring partys martin,dhb outsoursed them a couple of years back.half went to p & o the other half went to ocs.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#12
Would have thought the proportion of ex DHB workers on P&O was fairly small? terrible situation for the staff to be in.
Audere est facere.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#13
certainly is martin.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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#14
This is haw most uk contract work is usually dun and won ,, whether it be construction work or apple picking or tying up boats if they get their way
Company one wins the contract, and money changes hands
A percentage of that money is then given to a east European gang master installed on the job ,he then recruit from his home land and takes a cut from all the workers,
The EU worker can work for peanuts because the currency exchange works to give them workers a very good wage for their work.
The company that have won the contract in the first place are not bothered about who works on the job as long as they get their cut.
In fact they win the contract because they can use a cheap gang master to under cut other companions.
The gang master and all the workers usually all disappear with out paying tax an NI.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#16
Excellant news for those workers involved. It shows you don't need the big hand of Government.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#17
P & O caved in purely because the staff were members of a union that fought their corner, the vast majority of workers in the private sector are not in unions so they get shafted.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#18
Underestimated how many were in the union as only a small amount have it deducted from their wages is how it was told to me.
Audere est facere.