Sacked members of staff aboard a P&O ship have barricaded themselves in and are refusing entry to agency staff on the quayside. The crew members on board the Pride of Hull were among 800 informed this morning that they had been made redundant.
Hull Live is reporting that a crew member on the Pride of Rotterdam had been in touch with his colleagues on the Pride of Hull, and has set the scene of what is going on inside the ship. The walkway and stern doors of the Pride of Hull, which is currently moored in Hull, have been closed and locked, and the captain of the ship, Eugene Favier, from the Netherlands, has been refusing to back down after his crew were blindsided by a redundancy video message.
That message informed staff that they had been sacked with immediate effect and their jobs would be filled by people working for a 'third party'. The unions, RMT and Nautilus International, have encouraged crew members to stay on the ship, until it is clear what is going on with the terms of their redundancy.
