DP World’s record profits are “an insult to common decency”

The TUC has today (Wednesday) condemned DP World’s record first-half profits of £600 million as “an insult to common decency”.

The huge returns come less than six months after the company oversaw the illegal sacking of 800 crew on P&O ferries.

TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:

“DP World have been allowed to get away scot-free with behaving like corporate gangsters.

“These eye-watering profits have come off the back of P&O illegally sacking hundreds of dedicated staff. They are an insult to common decency.

“Ministers should have stripped DP world of all their lucrative public contracts and severed all commercial ties with the company.

“But now they too are using the P&O playbook.

“Having slammed P&O for replacing experienced workers with agency staff, Grant Shapps has passed laws that will all employers to bus in agency workers during strikes.

“At a time when the cost of living is soaring and wages are falling, the Conservative government wants to make it much harder for people to win better pay and conditions.”