Skip to main content
      Home News & insight News Nautilus enters dispute with P&O Ferries
      Industrial

      Nautilus enters dispute over mass redundancies with P&O Ferries

      18 March 2022

      Image:The Union joined protests across the UK against P&O Ferries after the company laid off 800 workers. Credit: Nautilus International
      The Union joined protests across the UK against P&O Ferries after the company laid off 800 workers. Credit: Nautilus International

      Nautilus International has issued a letter to P&O Ferries, informing management that the Union is now in a formal dispute with the company.  

      The full text of the letter is as follows:

      Industrial Dispute: Mass Redundancies P&O Ferries

      Further to the announcement of about 800 'redundancies' made yesterday morning (17 March 2022), Nautilus International now considers itself in dispute with P&O Ferries.

      This is consequential to the complete circumvention of our long-established Collective Bargaining Agreement and outrageous behaviours in its treatment of our maritime professionals. Furthermore, I note that P&O Ferries completely failed to carry out any collective consultation with Nautilus International, as required by section 188 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.

      The company, we believe, have acted unlawfully and immorally in failing to provide any notice of planned redundancies and have failed to engage in any consultation process.

      We urge you to establish an urgent meeting with ourselves in seeking to correct the situation.

      Yours sincerely,

      Charles Boyle

      Head of Legal Services

      Callout Image

      JOIN Nautilus International in the campaign for Fair Ferries!

      Mark Dickinson's speech on Fair Ferries and P&O Ferries Sign the open letter to the government

      Tags

      More articles

      Industrial

      GET INVOLVED: Demo outside DP World in London before a march on Parliamant

      Fight back against fire and rehire by joining at protests against P&O Ferries' sacking of 800 crew.

      • News
      • 18 March 2022
      Industrial

      P&O putting pressure on crew to sign redundancy packages, Nautilus warns

      Nautilus International is advising crew who have been laid off by P&O not to be pressured into signing redundancy agreements until the Union has time to provide help and advice.

      • News
      • 17 March 2022
      Industrial

      P&O Ferries hires replacement labour and security staff ahead of making British crew redundant

      Nautilus International has received evidence that P&O Ferries was planning to lay off all seafarers on UK routes for a long time ahead of its scandalous action to sack all crew without consultation.

      • News
      • 17 March 2022

      Become a Nautilus member today

      Join
      Find out more