All 800. Apparently the crews are still on the ships.
Replacement crews were waiting on buses to replace them. There's a word for that I think.
Foreign crews - mostly from sweatshop countries in Asia, apparently.
P&O are owned by DP World (they bought it in 2019), who are in turn owned by the Dubai dictatorship.
DP World announced in 2021 that in the preceding accounting period they made a profit of $475m. Now they are bleating that P&O (as an individual company) made losses in during the pandemic years, so this move is 'necessary' for the company's survival.
Utter bollocks.
It's pure greed by a bunch of thieving, multi-billionaire dictators.
But hey, that's capitalism.
And another example of the UK flogging off its silver to pay the rent (ie, our balance of payments deficit is consistently enormous, as we've outsourced our manufacturing function to China and other low-labour cost - ie, sweatshop - economies, and rely on foreign money - often dirty money - to buy up our companies and real estate)
The Tory scum will make the right noises to keep the flagshagging fuckwits onside, but will never implement the sort of labour protection laws that the French - for example - enjoy (but which that right-wing, Thatcherite twat Macron is removing), which would protect workers from this sort of predatory
