The Latest Breaking News from PO

Enemy within? Hardly... most people see why we need unions prepared to strike

Membership may have plummeted but the RMT and others play a key role in making Britain fairer

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2022

Family who have 'been to hell and back' hit by £12,000 P&O cruise nightmare

The family had been looking forward to the trip for years.

Manchester Evening News · Jun 25, 2022

Family 'been to hell and back' before £12k P&O cruise nightmare

The seven-night cruise holiday was meant to be a respite after John Coates had battled serious ill-health

Liverpool Echo · Jun 25, 2022

Train strikes kick off summer of travel misery - with Grant Shapps 'doing nothing'

Flights cancelled, railways grind to a halt, petrol prices rise again... and STILL Transport Secretary Shapps refuses to do anything as a last-ditch bid to avert the three-day national action by train staff fails

Daily Mirror · Jun 20, 2022

Tories to bring in law that lets agency staff do jobs of striking workers

Labour accused the government of adopting the P&O Ferries "playbook" and said replacing staff "cannot and must not be an option"

Daily Mirror · Jun 20, 2022

Last-ditch talks fail to resolve rail row with strikes to go ahead

Thousands of members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union at Network Rail and 13 train operators will walk out on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

The Independent UK · Jun 20, 2022

The rail strikes are just the start. Tory cruelty has left workers no choice but to fight back

Johnson will scapegoat the unions, but after 12 years of frozen and falling wages, their members can’t afford another pay cut, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2022

Boris Johnson told by agency bosses to drop ‘worrying’ plan to use their staff to break strikes

‘The sector does not want to be involved in this. We are very opposed to this plan’

The Independent UK · Jun 20, 2022

Strikes 'not easy to organise' and need 'burning sense of injustice', says union boss

TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady spoke at a rally ahead of Saturday’s cost of living demo in London. She said Boris Johnson is 'not a stupid man' but 'is playing all the old tunes'

Daily Mirror · Jun 16, 2022

National rail strike June 2022: RMT leadership on why union has not called off strike

The RMT also accused Boris Johnson and the Government of using the June 21, 23 and 25 train strike as a 'political football'

Chronicle Live · Jun 16, 2022