P&O recruitment agency says it knew nothing about sackings

A recruitment firm denies hiring cheap labour to replace ferry staff sacked without warning.

They were accompanied by a dozen security guards with handcuffs.

"When we realised the RMT were involved and this was a big union dispute, we didn't want to be part of that. To us, boarding that ship was like crossing a picket line."Agency worker Mark Canet-Baldwin hired to replace P&O staff quits over mass staff sacking The recruitment agency involved is now looking to distance itself from the dispute - and claims that it was providing cheap foreign labour.

"Employers know there may be no effective sanction to stop them doing so, and on top of that they can get away with paying below the minimum wage.

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