Seafarers blocked a road in Dover in protest after leading UK ferry operator, P&O Ferries, sacked 800 British crew across its entire fleet after stopping all its sailings on Thursday.
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Security staff were preparing to remove crew from ships in Dover and Larne, Belfast, after unions instructed crew not to leave vessels. Coaches carrying replacement agency staff – brought in from Colombia, according to reports in the French press – were reported to be standing by at Dover and Hull.

Staff were told by video message that P&O 'vessels will be primarily crewed by a third party crew provider … Your final day of employment is today'. The RMT said guards with handcuffs were seeking to board ships to remove crew so they could be replaced with cheaper labour

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