Nautilus International has welcomed a statement from the International Labour Organization (ILO) which demonstrates that significantly weak employment protections in the UK aided and abetted P&O Ferries in sacking 786 seafarers in 2022 without warning or consultation.
Nautilus International general secretary Mark Dickinson said: 'We welcome the determinations of the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association (CFA).
'There must be a rebalance in UK law. The government must take heed of the CFA's recommendations in totality and act upon them if it does not want a repeat of P&O Ferries.
'While we welcome the UK government extending national minimum wage legislation and devising a voluntary seafarers charter in response to the corporate thuggery of P&O Ferries, neither of these deal with the fundamental problem that UK employment law is significantly weighted in favour of employers and against trade unions.'
Nautilus International alongside RMT union, and union federations Trades Union Congress (TUC), International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF) and International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), have issued a joint statement on the ILO's rebuke of UK government failures following the P&O Ferries scandal.
The joint statement said:
'P&O Ferries' brutal sacking of 800 dedicated seafarers in March 2022 was one of the most shocking episodes in modern industrial relations. Despite admitting acting illegally,...
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