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Labor union furious with UK government's continued use of P&O Ferries

The company’s mass layoffs led the British state to annul a contract P&O Ferries. Now it turns out the government is in certain cases still using the controversial operator, stoking labor union ire.
Photo: Henry Nicholls/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
Photo: Henry Nicholls/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
BY KIM WIESENER

P&O Ferries continues to enjoy the British government’s patronage, even though the UK’s transportation ministry canceled a contract with the contentious ferry operator in the wake of illegal mass layoffs leaving almost 800 people unemployed.

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