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Fresh rail strike to cause disruption to services

Members of the RMT on TransPennine Express will walk out on Sunday in a long-running pay dispute

The Independent UK

P&O Ferries has ‘got away with it’, say unions as Shapps backtracks on action

Two-week battle to hold company to account for sacking of 786 crew members appears to end with a whimper

The Guardian - UK

North East rail passengers warned of travel disruption on Sunday due to strike action

A 24 hour strike has been called by members of the RMT employed by TransPennine Express in a row over pay and Sunday working

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Glasgow firm accused of helping P&O 'fire and rehire' staff and supplying 'scab workforce'

Clyde Marine Recruitment has been accused of 'desperately phoning round staff who had been disgracefully sacked' after it was confirmed some of the P&O workers who were brutally axed will return on an agency basis.

Glasgow Live

'Shameful' P&O Ferries in fire and rehire row as Glasgow firm defends role

Clyde Marine Recruitment (CMR) confirmed some of the P&O workers who were brutally axed will return on an agency basis.

Daily Record

P&O Ferries is not the first in UK waters to hire low-cost workers

The government has long turned a blind eye to widespread pay abuses by operators working out of UK ports

The Guardian - UK

On board the first P&O ferry where staff earn little more than £3 an hour

A reporter sailed on the first P&O ferry following the mass crew sackings and this is what they discovered

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Unions descend on P&O's recruitment firm as they demand jobs to be reinstated

Big turnout at Clyde Marine Recruitment but company claims it knew nothing of the plan to replace workforce with foreign workers

Daily Record

P&O Ferries has last chance to rehire sacked staff, says Grant Shapps

Firm must lift this week’s deadline for workers to reply to redundancy offers, says transport secretary

The Guardian - UK

Plan to stop P&O undercutting minimum wage will not ‘undo’ sackings as promised, Grant Shapps told

Law change looms to end ‘sweatshop’ pay - but transport secretary told to go further to ensure workers are rehired

The Independent UK

Grant Shapps urges P&O Ferries to U-turn on sacking of 800 workers

The transport secretary is expected to close loopholes to ensure ferry companies pay the UK minimum wage

The Guardian - UK

Sacked P&O crews to mount Glasgow protest against mass sackings by ferry company

The RMT union is organising a protest outside the offices of a recruitment company said to be involved in hiring replacement crews.

Daily Record

RMT union plans Cairnryan port blockade to protest over P&O sackings

Gordon Martin said the union would hold a demonstration at the port.

The Independent UK

Protests at UK ports as calls grow for P&O Ferries boss to quit over mass sackings

Hundreds shouted ‘P&O shame on you’ in demonstrations over sacking 800 staff

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Liverpool Echo

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

Danny McQuaid lost his job of eight years in a zoom call

The Independent UK

Rallies held to support ferry workers sacked by P&O

Crowds walked with banners and placards, chanting “P&O, shame on you” at demonstrations on Saturday.

The Independent UK

Protests over sacking of hundreds of P&O workers as calls grow for boss to quit

A ship operated by the ferry firm has been detained after failures on crew familiarisation, vessel documentation and crew training were found.

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson backs calls for shameless P&O boss to quit over illegal sackings

C&O chief Peter Hebblethwaite has been told to sling his hook and walk the plank (you plank) over his firm's illegal sackings of 800 staff - while Grant Shapps suggested he may change law to reinstate axed ferry workers

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The Independent UK

What do we know about P&O Ferries and how will shipping change?

Prime minister has signalled a pay rise for many crew on ferries and cruise ships using UK ports

The Independent UK

Talks between RMT and P&O over sackings end after 20 minutes

The union is calling for a boycott of P&O services over the sackings.

The Guardian - UK

New rail contract award to Go-Ahead branded ‘a sick joke’

Contract to run Britain’s biggest commuter rail network comes a week after £23.5m fine

Birmingham Post

Go-Ahead retains UK's largest rail contract despite "appalling breach of trust"

The Government has decided that Go-Ahead's Govia joint venture will continue to operate the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern rail services

The Independent UK

Union leaders hold talks with P&O to demand reinstatement of sacked seafarers

Rail, Maritime and Transport union bosses welcomed the public and political support for its campaign after almost 800 workers were sacked.

Daily Mirror

P&O DID deliberately break law over shameful mass sackings as CEO in shameful admission

P&O boss Peter Hebblethwaite admits the firm deliberately broke the law to sack 800 staff as ferry fatcat says he’d do it again and also admits replacements’ low pay

Daily Record

Furious protest at Scottish port over P&O's "illegal" sacking of staff

Sacked workers among protestors at ferry operator's Scottish base. They were replaced by £2 an hour foreign workers, leading to legal action against P&O by unions and UK government

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