P&O Ferries chefs distraught at getting the boot with zero notice after 30 years' service
dailyrecord.co.ukTwo long-serving P&O Ferries workers yesterday told how they’ve dedicated half their lives to the firm – only to be cruelly sunk without trace by the heartless bosses.
Chefs Mark Patterson and Alan McCulloch, of Stranraer, never missed a shift during lockdown or took a penny of furlough, as they kept their ship sailing between Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The men, both 59, are among 800 to be given the boot – to be replaced by what union bosses are calling “an army of scab labour”, on lower wages.
Mark and Alan, who earned £30,000 a year, each spent 30 years working for the firm, during which time they have felt like family members of fellow staff.As they met at Cairnryan yesterday, they looked out on the huge European Causeway ferry, which they’ve worked on since it was introduced 21 years ago.
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