Captain Haddock
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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The company boss (can not remember his name) would never admit it but I bet he sometimes regrets his sacking policy and using agency staff.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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Probably doesn't
He's still getting his pay check
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Button
- Location: Dover
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#381: Can you supply any further details for us?
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Button wrote:#381: Can you supply any further details for us?
This picture together with another was posted on FB on the Dover For Disgruntled Dovorians page approx 10hrs ago....
"Slight mishap involving the P&O pride of Kent over in Calais today, quite how the ramp does that I don’t know. Bet the driver got a shock"
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Simon Jones
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This is what happened to a coach on a P&O ferry yesterday. The company describes it as a ‘minor incident’, saying one passenger grazed their leg.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-63090372
"John Lansdown was the only seafarer to take legal action after refusing a redundancy settlement offered by the ferry company.
The settlement will go to the Sailors Children's Society."
I hope the settlement is really huge.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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You have to admire this guy's principles who could have got more by taking the redundancy .
But he's giving all the pay off to charity.
He's kept to the point that it was wrong the way p and o acted (which they also admitted )
But other workforces should watch out .
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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As Mrs E tweets, the Seafarers' Wages Bill is due in the Commons; here's where you get it from:
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3310/publications.
From what I can make out (but could very well be wrong - I found the Bill confusing in the extreme and very leaky) :
- the onus is placed on harbour authorities and
- its scope seems to cover "small boats" (!) but may not cover services to and from off-shore wind farms, fuel rigs and the like (since these may not be '
places outside the UK').
Does anyone know what the RMT makes of it - I assume they were consulted?
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Hopefully they pull out of Dover or lose lots of dosh
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Button- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Heathrow airport in Dover ?
That's how elphickes contribution reads
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:Heathrow airport in Dover ?
That's how elphickes contribution reads
?
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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28L & 28R as separation zones.?
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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In her speech Elphicke if you read indicated Heathrow in Dover
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Button- Location: Dover
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I did, she didn't.
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:In her speech Elphicke if you read indicated Heathrow in Dover
Do you have a link to that, as it's not in the one button posted?
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Technology and me lol
I will try later Reginald
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Button- Location: Dover
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John McDonnell said in his speech in the debate: "The Bill does not outlaw fire and rehire. That was used by P&O, whose example was followed very quickly by Heathrow airport in my constituency."
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