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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Danny Rigg

P&O worker speaks out after losing job, 'family' and belongings in mass sacking

Protesters marched on the Port of Liverpool today to voice their anger at P&O Ferries mass sackings of 800 people over zoom.

After gathering at the Seafarers Centre on Crosby Road South in Waterloo, the crowd carrying banners and placards marched to the port's entrance a few hundred metres away. There the general secretary of the Rail and Maritime Transport union (RMT) said the "spring is back" in the union movement with the backlash to the job losses.

One protester holding an RMT Belfast banner was Danny McQuaid, who worked at P&O for eight years before he was fired over zoom on Thursday, March 17. He spoke to the ECHO despite P&O Ferries requiring that the 800 to not speak to the press if they want to get compensation.

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