Labour Disputes

Maritime union RMT on the sale of P&O Ferries to Dubai Ports World

Mick Cash

Maritime union RMT on the sale of P&O Ferries to Dubai Ports World 

Maritime Union RMT today said that the sale of P&O Ferries for £322m from Dubai World to Dubai Ports World raised fresh concerns over the future direction of shipping and ports policy in the UK, including the Port of Dover.

Commenting on the announcement RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said:

“P&O’s freight and passenger ferry fleet connecting UK and European ports is now entirely registered under Flags of Convenience.

“For...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/02/20/maritime-union-rmt-on-the-sale-of-po-ferries-to-dubai-ports-world/

Shipping union RMT on cancellation of Seaborne Freight government Brexit ferry contract

Mick Cash

Shipping union RMT on cancellation of Seaborne Freight government Brexit ferry contract.

General Secretary Mick Cash said;
“RMT has taken a number of protests over the fiasco of the Government’s Brexit ferry contracts to both the Department for Transport and the ports and the news this morning comes as no surprise to us at all. The whole exercise is a complete and utter shambles with the Government ignoring union calls on what needs to happen. Instead ‎they are blundering on from crisis...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/02/09/shipping-union-rmt-on-cancellation-of-seaborne-freight-government-brexit-ferry-contract/

RMT on official confirmation today from P&O that they are ‘Flagging Out’ Dover-Calais Fleet to Cyprus

Mick Cash

SEAFARER Ratings union RMT today poured scorn over P&O’s claim that Brexit was behind their decision to switch the entire Dover-Calais fleet from the UK to the Cypriot flag as the company finally confirmed publicly exactly what RMT has been warning of for weeks.

RMT general secretary Mick Cash said:

“This is pure opportunism from P&O, whose long term aim has always been to switch the UK fleet to a tax haven register, as they have already done with most of the Irish Sea and North Sea...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/01/22/rmt-on-official-confirmation-today-from-po-that-they-are-flagging-out-dover-calais-fleet-to-cyprus/

RMT welcomes transfer of Argyll Ferries to publicly owned CalMac from today

Mick Cash

Maritime union RMT today welcomed the transfer of the Argyll Ferries contract to the publicly owned CalMac and heralded it as a victory for union members and the on-going campaign to end profiteering and uncertainty on Scottish Ferry services. 

Minister for Energy, Connectivity and the Islands, Paul Wheelhouse MSP, announced last year that he would be scrapping the halted tender process and directly awarding the Gourock-Dunoon contract to CalMac. The union has held consultative meetings...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/01/21/rmt-welcomes-transfer-of-argyll-ferries-to-publicly-owned-calmac-from-today/

ITF opposes BHP’s decision to end 100 years of Australian shipping

22 January 2019 – The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) today expressed opposition to the decision of BHP to dump Australian crew from two vessels that carried iron ore from Port Hedland in Western Australia to steelworks in Port Kembla and to China.

The decision will see 80 Australian seafarers lose their jobs, ending more than 100 years of Australian-crewed iron ore shipping servicing BHP and BlueScope steelworks, to be replaced by foreign crew on Flag of Convenience (FoC)...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/01/21/itf-opposes-bhps-decision-to-end-100-years-of-australian-shipping/

RMT to take demands for a fair deal for workers on BREXIT Ferry contracts direct to Chris Grayling

Mick Cash

Maritime union RMT will be taking the demands for a fair deal for British workers on Government Brexit ferry contracts direct to Transport Secretary Chris Grayling on Friday morning.

RMT will be holding a protest outside the DfT at 10am on Friday 11th January (Department for Transport, Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 4DR) setting out the following three core demands on the Government contracts:

  1. All ferries to be fully crewed up with UK ratings
  2. Recognition of UK...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/01/08/rmt-to-take-demands-for-a-fair-deal-for-workers-on-brexit-ferry-contracts-direct-to-chris-grayling/

Maritime union RMT to hold demo defending victimised Stena Line ‘Holyhead 3’ union reps on Sat 15 December

Mick Cash

Maritime union RMT has confirmed that it will be holding a demonstration against management victimisation of union reps on Stena Line, Irish Sea, on:

Saturday 15th December at: 11.30am, Stena House, Station Approach, Holyhead LL65 1DQ

The demonstration – in support of the Holyhead 3 – is taking place to protest at Stena Line calling these RMT members into ad hoc one-to-one meetings with management to discuss personal redundancy agreements and then placing them on indefinite ‘authorised’...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/12/13/maritime-union-rmt-to-hold-demo-defending-victimised-stena-line-holyhead-3-union-reps-on-sat-15-december/

RMT Irish Sea campaign day of action in Liverpool on Friday in fight for pay justice

Mick Cash

RMT’s campaigning in the Irish Sea will turn to ‘low-cost’ operator Seatruck in Liverpool this Friday with an early morning protest at the company’s depot at Brocklebank Dock as the union steps up the fight for pay and workplace justice.

The Liverpool protest, part of a day of action and a wider RMT campaign, will take place as follows:

7.45am, Friday 30th November 2018
Seatruck Ferry Terminal,
Brocklebank Dock,
Port of Liverpool L20 1DB.

RMT is targeting Seatruck’s second morning...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/11/28/rmt-irish-sea-campaign-day-of-action-in-liverpool-on-friday-in-fight-for-pay-justice/

Seafarer union RMT demands Government action to halt latest threat to North Sea jobs

Mick Cash

SEAFARER union RMT today demanded Government intervention to prevent the loss of hundreds of Scottish and UK seafarer Ratings’ jobs following Tidewater’s buy out of Gulfmark to form the world’s largest offshore supply vessel (OSV) company.

Up to 300 Ratings jobs are on the line, with Tidewater refusing to discuss the future of Gulfmark’s UK registered fleet with the recognised union, RMT.

General Secretary, Mick Cash said:
“Tidewater must meet us in Aberdeen for immediate discussion of...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/11/20/seafarer-union-rmt-demands-government-action-to-halt-latest-threat-to-north-sea-jobs/

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