Irish Ferries jobs - Both sides must ensure fair wages

FOLLOWING the scandalous treatment of female Filipino workers on Irish ships, the writing was on the wall that cheap labour loomed on the horizon.

But seafaring workers were utterly surprised at the speed of the Irish Ferries move to implement a stringent cost-cutting programme.

Few anticipated yesterday’s sudden offer of voluntary redundancy packages to its 543 seafaring workers on the Dublin-Holyhead and Rosslare-Pembroke routes.