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P&O Ferries ‘planned to recruit Russian and Ukraine seafarers’

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) says P&O Ferries’ original plan was to replace its recently sacked 800 workers with Russian and Ukrainian seafarers. With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there had instead been “a chaotic scrabble to recruit seafarers on two week contracts through a shady shell corporation”. The two unions said that parent company DP World had serious questions to answer. They said that DP ... [+]

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