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5 results found for '"P & O Ferries"' in Keywords.
P & O Ferries dispute moves to the courts (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
The P & O Ferries dispute moves to the courts today. Sealink is to ask a judge to seize the assets of the National Union of Seamen after its ships were prevented from sailing by Dover pickets yesterday....
P & O sails ferry out of Dover, breaking strike (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
P & O Ferries are claiming that they have broken the back of the seamen’s blockade. Reporter James Bays was on the Pride of Bruges as it steamed out of Dover, bound for Zeebrugge. Contributions from P...
Sacked seaman tries to stop return to work (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
David Carpenter was a ship’s carpenter for fifteen years before being sacked by P & O for going on strike. He has been trying to persuade former colleagues who have decided to go back to work, not to...
Sam McCluskie on seizure of union assets (1988)
- Genre
- Press conference
Sam McCluskie, General Secretary of the National Union of Seamen, says he feels aggrieved by but has bowed to today’s High Court decision to seize the union’s assets and fine it 150 thousand pounds...
Striking seamen ordered back to work (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
National Union of Seamen General Secretary Sam McCluskie is to visit Dover this morning to explain the back-to-work order to his members endign the P & O Ferries strike. He says the decision was...