Axed P&O Ferry Workers Assured Jobs to be Found for them
More than 100 workers on Portsmouth’s axed Bilbao ferry service have been told they will be found other jobs.
The Pride of Bilbao, P&O’s only remaining ship operating from Portsmouth, is due to leave harbour for the last time on September 28.
Its looming departure had left a question mark over the hundreds of jobs on the ship.
But after talks with the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, P&O said just seven permanent staff would be made redundant, with the remaining 114 moved to other ships.
In order to keep their jobs, they are likely to have to travel to ships in P&O’s hubs of Hull and Dover.
But although the company is finding posts for 114 staff which it employs directly, 208 agency staff on board look set to lose their jobs once the vessel is handed back to owner Irish Ferries at the end of next month.
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