P&O Ferries sparked a furious backlash after 800 crew members were told this week they were being let go with timmediate effect and being replaced with agency workers.
"Here's 10 guys [with] handcuffs and balaclava type hats and black masks, and I thought: 'What's going on here?'" he said.
"It came down to ethics and morals and principles, and I thought I don't want to start a mutiny here, but I just said guys I can't do this, this is wrong, we're taking those people's jobs."P&O said it had resumed one of its services crossing the Irish Sea today. In a letter published on Twitter, general secretary Mark Dickinson called on Mr Shapps to"hold P&O to account" in six ways, including pursuing"any legal option available" over how P&O handled the mass redundancies.
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