Labour Disputes

DNV’s Maritime Academy course – MLC 2006 Implementation and Compliance

MLC 2006 Implementation and Compliance

DNV’s Maritime Academy Hellas is offering on 3 April 2025, a course on the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC 2006). The convention is in force and every ship and ship owner has to comply with it.

But what is the learning curve within the past few months. Where are the major findings detected during Maritime Labour Inspections? Where could your system be improved to be ahead of upcoming problems?

Within the course you will refresh your general knowledge...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/03/14/dnvs-maritime-academy-course-mlc-2006-implementation-and-compliance-3/

DP World protest against P&O sackings

RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch

Maritime union RMT will be joining protesters outside the Dubai owned company HQ on Thursday 21 April at 5pm.

Organised by the International Transport Federation in London outside the offices of DP World, 16 Palace Street London SW1E 5JQ, RMT activists will be keeping up their “Fair Ferries campaign” and calling for the re-instatement of all 800 sacked seafarers.

ITF inspectors who were scheduled to investigate welfare issues at the Port of Dover earlier this week...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/04/20/dp-world-protest-against-po-sackings/

Fresh turbulence ahead for airlines as travel chaos continues

Susannah Streeter

6 April 2022 – Since the start of 2021 airline shares have fallen back amid ongoing disruption:

  • Wizz Air down 40%,
    Ryanair down 17%,
    International Consolidated Airlines Group down 14%
    American Airlines down 10%,
    Quantas down 2%.

Brent crude hovers around $101 a barrel and is up 27% since the start of 2021

Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown
 
‘’Flight chaos is spreading around the world, as the school holiday rush intensifies, amid severe...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/04/08/fresh-turbulence-ahead-for-airlines-as-travel-chaos-continues/

Unions demand change to end fire and rehire

Unions demand change to end fire and rehire

Joint press release from ITF, ETF, Nautilus and RMT

Last night, ITF, ETF, Nautilus International and RMT projected a video on to the cliffs of Dover and images on to the headquarters of P&O Ferries, demanding that the company be brought to task for its immoral and illegal actions.

This action comes after P&O Ferries sacked 800 seafarers two weeks ago. One Zoom call, 30 minutes notice, and 800 lives, 800 families, 800 homes, communities have been changed...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/04/01/unions-demand-change-to-end-fire-and-rehire/

Extra protections for seafarers as Government introduces new maritime laws

  • New powers mandating ferries operating in and out of the UK pay national minimum wage to be brought forward
  • ‘Minimum Wage Corridors’ to be explored with like-minded countries to ensure workers are paid an agreed minimum wage
  • Transport Secretary calls on Insolvency Service to disqualify P&O Ferries Chief Executive

The UK Government has today (Wednesday 30 March) announced a suite of new measures to protect seafarers, following P&O Ferries’ decision to summarily sack 800 workers earlier this...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/03/30/extra-protections-for-seafarers-as-government-introduces-new-maritime-laws/

Government package of measures welcomed but they don’t go far enough

The Secretary of State for Transport has today laid out the initial government response to the disgraceful decision by P&O Ferries to dismiss 800 seafarers without notice or consultation.

The government’s ‘package of measures’ – nine proposals in all – have been focussed on the extension of the national minimum wage to all seafarers onboard ferries that enter UK ports. Nautilus welcomes these proposals, indeed, we have been calling for this for many years. However, intervention on the national...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/03/30/government-package-of-measures-welcomed-but-they-dont-go-far-enough/

RMT respond to Shapps P&O statement

Mick Lynch – RMT General Secretary said:

“Despite all the bluster, Grant Shapps has failed to grasp the opportunity to adequately stand up to the banditry behaviour of P&O.

“The Prime Minister repeatedly said to parliament that the Government would be taking legal action save British seafarers’ jobs but he has failed to keep his word. 

“This continued lack of action and courage has meant a ferry company owned by the Dubai royal family has been able to break our laws and disrupt our ports and ruin...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/03/30/rmt-respond-to-shapps-po-statement/

P & O Ferries

“The ferry sector has faced huge challenges during the pandemic and we understand that P & O Ferries faced an incredibly difficult commercial situation. The Chamber does not condone how P &O Ferries dismissed 800 seafarers without consultation.

Following this afternoons announcement by the Secretary of State we are working closely with the Department for Transport, our members and other stakeholders to create a commercially viable UK model for our international ferry services. We must establish...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/03/30/p-o-ferries/

MPC expresses concern over situation at P&O Ferries

The Maritime Professional Council (MPC) of the UK notes with concern the termination of the employment of 800 UK seafarers employed by P&O Ferries and the detrimental impact this has had on the reputation of the industry as a whole.

The MPC wishes to highlight the blow the loss of these seagoing posts will have on the ongoing efforts to increase the number of UK seafarers and maintain Britain’s position as a significant maritime nation. At a stroke it undermines the UK Maritime Strategy.

While...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/03/29/mpc-expresses-concern-over-situation-at-po-ferries/

RMT on detention by MCA of Pride of kent tonight

Mick Lynch

RMT tonight welcomed the MCA detention of another P&O vessel the Pride of Kent in Dover for what the union believes are multiple safety and operational breaches, including the wearing of breathing apparatus, and demanded again that the Government seize the entire fleet and take action to get them back in service with the sacked crew reinstated.

‎General Secretary Mick Lynch said;

“The seizing of the Pride of Kent by the MCA this evening should be adequate evidence for the Government...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/03/28/rmt-on-detention-by-mca-of-pride-of-kent-tonight/

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