What's happening with P&O ferries

[Tony Taylor]

I spent 5 years on FF ships and yet to see these ITF rates. Never saw anyone else either who ever received , they must have been there somewhere but were hard to find . If they are a completely different company they must be off the stock exchange as believe they were a public limited company and should not be trading under P & O colours. JS

P&O Cruises was bought by Carnival Corp. in 2000

[John Arton]

Here is the ITF, ILO minimum wage scales. If you download the Pdf. File the actual rates of pay are given.
As an example the daily rates for
Master is $72
A.B. is $21
Rgds
J.A.
https://www.itfseafarers.org/en/reso...interpretation

[j.sabourn]

That’s nothing to write home about today. Now I understand why the US masters I knew were so hard up compared with the Australians . Cheers JS

[Mo Docherty]

seamans ticket,eng 1 c ertificate,fire fighting ticket,,basic sea survival ticket,,wonder if new ppl had these

[happy daze john in oz]

My understanding is that P&O UK and here in Oz are both Carnival owned.
Though they are run as separate companies within Carnival.
P&O UK and the P&O Oz.
The ferry service is a separate matter.

[j.sabourn]

#83. 1991 ... offshore here the wage for master on a straight supply vessel and the lowest wage was $70,000 p.a. And that was 1 for 1 , I.e. every day on made 1 days paid leave off. There was about 80 cents difference between a US dollar and an Aust. Dollar so that made the salary $56 000 US. Or approx US $ 155 a day. An AB was on 49000 Australian dollars a year. This could be increased by not taken the paid leave and doing extra time if required by both parties. One American master who I signed on as 2 mate so as to have an American presence on board for a US registered ship , told me that the Australian ABs we’re earning more than him. If he was on the ITF rates which he may well have been , I can now see his point of view I myself worked for US owners for nearly a year in 1967 and was on 700 $ US a month , the British ship I left after the seaman’s strike I was on 101 pounds 12/6 a month and 27 pounds 2/6d a month in lieu of overtime. This was below US money, but must have had a long way to catch up with Australian whatever it was in that period of time . I had no occasion to not agree with the US wages at that time, and certainly not with the Australian at a later date. The only query wage wise was always on British ships which to me were always dragging their heels. Cheers JS.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Which all makes my wage of 32 pounds a month look like slave labour, I may start a white Woke movement and throw any monuments I dislike into the Red Sea. But I will keep my discharge book LoL
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

Des, you were in good company at that rate.
It was about what footballers got per match in the 50's.
Then after the match went to work.

[j.sabourn]

#86 should have said 20 cents difference twixtUS and Australian $. JS

[Michael Black]

The BBC reporting that the insolvency service has launched criminal and civil investigation into the sacking of the crews.
P&O ferries have said that only 1 ex employee had not agreed to the redundancy package offered by the deadline for acceptance

Regards Michael