With their commercials contracts set to expire tonight, SAG-AFTRA and the advertising industry’s Joint Policy Committee have agreed to extend them on a day-to-day basis to allow negotiations to continue.
19.03.2022 - 13:57 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Two long-serving P&O Ferries workers yesterday told how they’ve dedicated half their lives to the firm – only to be cruelly sunk without trace by the heartless bosses.
Chefs Mark Patterson and Alan McCulloch, of Stranraer, never missed a shift during lockdown or took a penny of furlough, as they kept their ship sailing between Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The men, both 59, are among 800 to be given the boot – to be replaced by what union bosses are calling “an army of scab labour”, on lower wages.
Mark and Alan, who earned £30,000 a year, each spent 30 years working for the firm, during which time they have felt like family members of fellow staff.
As they met at Cairnryan yesterday, they looked out on the huge European Causeway ferry, which they’ve worked on since it was introduced 21 years ago.
Mark slated P&O for the brutal way in which they were told their careers were finished, without notice, after decades of service. The same fate could affect up to 100 others in Scotland.
He said: “I was on a holiday at Centre Parcs on Thursday and I got a call right out of the blue to say I was sacked, with no notice or barely a thank you.
“There’s no jobs to be had down here, which is one issue. But I just can’t believe the callous way they did this after 30 years of service.
“There is not an inch of that boat I don’t know and I have felt like family with the other people on board.
“During the lockdown, I never missed a shift. I got on board and put my own health on the line, before vaccinations and boosters were a thing.
“Three of us did the work of five people – but this is the thanks we got. It’s disgraceful and I feel we have been treated like our service meant nothing.”
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