Boycott P&O Ferries!

GBP850.

Are you sure?

I have used the ferry a number of times and it’s been nowhere near that?

P&O just got caught

I think it was more the manner in which they dismissed the previous employed crew that marked them out & the subsequent poor wages, than poor wages alone.

Well, as long as you’re happy to directly support modern slavery, keep sailing with P&O…

If the modern slavery bit is regarding Filipino crew wages then you need to get some perspective. Yes, they are on crap wages by our standards but most of them are sending that money home and living the high life when they’re back. These things are all relative.

Don’t take that as endorsement of P&Os behaviour towards their staff, that is absolutely wrong, I’m just adding some context.

Piss easy boycotting P&O as I’ve never been on a ferry. I shall continue as is 👍

Is this not the same as any large company or just an easy target for the OP? I assume that they will encourage the boycott of any company that pays its CEO more than the bog cleaner. What the CEO earns and their policies are different things. Don’t use one to grind the other axe. Same as slagging off cyclists who jump red lights (t***s) to divert attention from illegal parking.

Or is it just another bit of STW hypocrisy? Along with you look after the planet while I buy a new bike and drive to ride it.

The OP was stating a timely reminder that whilst the government allows the erosion of workers rights – you the consumer can have a say and vote with your wallet whatever the need for a ferry.

mattsccm as I said in an earlier post, there is always an element of hypocrisy as there are loads of companies that are wronguns that many of us still use.

But….did you follow the story a year or two back where this stems from and how they treated their UK workers that got them to where they are today?

Or is it just another bit of STW hypocrisy? Along with you look after the planet while I buy a new bike and drive to ride it.

So anyone who does anything positive on any front is a hypocrit now.

You can both park legally and not jump red lights on a bike, though ignoring the pedestrian ones when there are no cars no doubts marks me as a hypocrit in your eyes.

If you’re gonna take a ferry choose companies that have fairer contracts.

Buy fewer clothes and ones made locally or second hand when possible. Same for bikes.

I’d rather be a minor hypocrit, drive an EV and buy something made in korea now and then than a cynical nihilist.

I loved Cynical Nihilist’s first album at uni in the 90s. Seminal work for that genre.

Last time I went to book Amsterdam-Newcastle, it was more like 1200. That’s for 1 passenger, 1 car, 1 inside bunk, no food. The price each way just for the bunk was more than a Lufthansa return flight (Frankfurt-Glasgow). I flew.

It’s true that P+O just got caught. They were not the first ferry company to do that. It just blew up in the media.

If P+O is half the price of Eurotunnel, then I’ll pick P+O. And I’ve very rarely had heavy seas cross channel like some people claim is like all winter. Last time I did Eurotunnel it was 3.5 hours from check-in to driving off. The ferry would have been faster.

We were looking at a weekend away from the North East to Amsterdam.  Cheapest option would have been P and O Hull-Rotterdam and the train to Amsterdam.

DFDS was eye-wateringly expensive, Harwich-Hook of Holland too impractical.  Trains, expensive with the additional journey to London.

Ended up flying from Durham Tees Valley as it’s 30mins from home.

PnO’s treatment of their crew is sickening, both those who were sacked and those now working on their ships for less than minimum wage.

As a working seafarer, can I please ask you all to forget that they are even an option.

In terms of channel crossings (where you have many choices) then I’ll happily not use P&O.

But living in the north of England we very rarely cross via the channel (once in the last 25 years and it was bad for us and a nightmare for anyone scheduled to cross a few hours later). Unfortunately if everyone boycotts the Hull-Rotterdam crossing then it will go the same way as the Zeebrugge ferry. And the Norway ferry. And the Sweden ferry. And the Denmark ferry. The Newcastle DFDS crossing is already less convenient and a ridiculous price, which is just going to get worse as we then have zero options and are stuck on this island with totally southern-centric transport routes.

P&O are arses but they have us over a barrel.