The local Conservative MP, Natalie Elphicke, and the former shadow chancellor John McDonnell, led a protest march in Dover with the leaders of the RMT and Nautilus International unions against P&O Ferries after the sacking without notice of 800 workers in a move the archbishop of Canterbury denounced as a sin.
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Angry demonstration against P&O Ferries have taken place at ports across the UK with trade unions leaders and politicians of all sides joining sacked P&O workers in Hull, Dover, Liverpool and Larne to protest against the company’s decision to replace all its crew with cheaper agency workers.

Despite speaking out against P&O and holding up a RMT poster against the ‘jobs carve up’, Elphicke was heckled by some of the protesters who said Tory laws had led to the sacking. Elphicke responded: ‘Nonsense, it’s bad business behaviour’

‘There were grown men in tears’: P&O crews stunned by sackings ► https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/18/there-were-grown-men-in-tears-po-crews-stunned-by-sackings

‘Scandalous betrayal’: MPs condemn P&O Ferries ► https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/17/politicians-condemn-p-and-o-ferries-mass-sacking-staff

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