Stenna Line threatens to sack British crews....

BigAndy9 wrote:So true Iron.

There are only two political parties, as far as I'm aware, who will stop this.

edit:  will you vote for one of them, or will you vote for Labour, who lied about "British Jobs For British People"?

If you voted for one of the 3 mains, you have no reason to be posting threads on here.

Irn Bru wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:So true Iron.

There are only two political parties, as far as I'm aware, who will stop this.

edit:  will you vote for one of them, or will you vote for Labour, who lied about "British Jobs For British People"?

If you voted for one of the 3 mains, you have no reason to be posting threads on here.

I have other options that you don't Andy. Unless you move to Scotland that is.

Shady wrote:Good morning BA & Irn.

Does this mean that you'll both be voting for UKIP?  

Tess. wrote:Some things never change:

"Again, in the 1840s there were quite serious riots on some of the new railways (serious enough to bring out the yeomanry); from newspaper reports it is quite clear the Irish were in a small minority and were being attacked by the English. The motives seem to have been at least partly financial; the Irish were said to undercut wages by working for less money..."

http://www.victorianweb.org/history/work/navvy2.html

Irn Bru wrote:...and employ foreign crews on rates below the NMW.

Ferry giant Stena Line is asking workers to accept pay freezes and longer hours of working to avoid “large scale redundancies” and replacement with foreign crews.

The company has written to its UK seafarers with a stark message about the trading performance of the firm, that employs around 400 staff in Holyhead.

Bosses warn that £10m needs to be cut in 2014 from the cost of crewing and maintaining its Irish Sea vessels, which include the Holyhead-based superferry Adventurer, fast ferry Explorer and freight boat Stena Nordica.

In a letter by head of HR Mick Ambrose obtained by the Daily Post, the company said one way to resolve the situation was moving to a non-UK crewing model, with large scale redundancy of the existing crews and paying new staff below the UK minimum wage.

But Stena Line, which has not made an operational profit in Europe since 2003, say this can be avoided with the cooperation of workers and unions by a major overhaul of pay and conditions.

The first stage would see a pay freeze in 2014, a delay to pay harmonisation and the technical management of the ships to be out-sourced to the Northern Marine Group.

Discussions would then take place on increasing annual working time from 24 to 26 weeks, cuts in sickness absence, the introduction of more lower pay grade roles, and new pay rates for  future employees.

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/business/business-news/stena-line-asks-ferry-workers-6531254

That's the way things are these days. Accept lower standards or face the sack. That's how we are supposed to compete on the global market these days. Just the way they want it.

heavenly father wrote:

Irn Bru wrote:...and employ foreign crews on rates below the NMW.

Ferry giant Stena Line is asking workers to accept pay freezes and longer hours of working to avoid “large scale redundancies” and replacement with foreign crews.

The company has written to its UK seafarers with a stark message about the trading performance of the firm, that employs around 400 staff in Holyhead.

Bosses warn that £10m needs to be cut in 2014 from the cost of crewing and maintaining its Irish Sea vessels, which include the Holyhead-based superferry Adventurer, fast ferry Explorer and freight boat Stena Nordica.

In a letter by head of HR Mick Ambrose obtained by the Daily Post, the company said one way to resolve the situation was moving to a non-UK crewing model, with large scale redundancy of the existing crews and paying new staff below the UK minimum wage.

But Stena Line, which has not made an operational profit in Europe since 2003, say this can be avoided with the cooperation of workers and unions by a major overhaul of pay and conditions.

The first stage would see a pay freeze in 2014, a delay to pay harmonisation and the technical management of the ships to be out-sourced to the Northern Marine Group.

Discussions would then take place on increasing annual working time from 24 to 26 weeks, cuts in sickness absence, the introduction of more lower pay grade roles, and new pay rates for  future employees.

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/business/business-news/stena-line-asks-ferry-workers-6531254

That's the way things are these days. Accept lower standards or face the sack. That's how we are supposed to compete on the global market these days. Just the way they want it.

isn't this illegal, doesn't the european courts some how govern this..

BigAndy9 wrote:

heavenly father wrote:

isn't this illegal, doesn't the european courts some how govern this..

I think you'll find that other European nations quite like the way things are in the UK - dump all their cr4p here and to hell with the rules!